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Russia: 5 Militants Killed in North Caucasus

   VOA News 25 August 2010

   Authorities  in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan say security
   forces  have killed five suspected militants who opened fire on police
   during a traffic stop.
   A  police statement said the shootout near the border with Chechnya in
   the town of Khasavyurt occurred late Tuesday. The statement identified
   the  militants as males in their 20s and early 30s, and said automatic
   weapons and munitions were recovered at the scene.

   Dagestan  is part of Russia's volatile North Caucasus, a mostly-Muslim
   region  where  separatists  and  Russian forces fought two devastating
   wars  in  the  1990s.  Shootings  and  bombings  in  the  region are a
   near-daily occurrence.

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   Russian  authorities  said  Saturday  that  special  forces killed the
   militant suspected of organizing deadly bombings that killed 40 people
   in Moscow's subway system in March.
   Authorities  say  the  suspect,  Magomedali  Vagabov,  was one of five
   militants   killed  when  special  forces  surrounded  the  militants'
   hideout. State television showed Russian troops pouring gunfire into a
   stone house that caught fire during the siege.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.

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