A Daghestani Interior Ministry spokesman told RIA Novosti that one of the killed militants was Ulubi Yelgushiev, nicknamed Sadok, a native of the Shchyolkovo District of Chechnya. Yelgushiev was based in Stavropol, a Russian province adjacent to Chechnya.
One other killed militant has been identified as Rasul Tambulatov, born in 1975, nicknamed "Khishchnik" ("Predator") and "Volchok" ("Wolf"). He was originally from the village of Kayasula, in the Stavropol Territory. The identity of the third militant is now being established, the ministry spokesman reports.
According to ministry officials, a Makarov pistol on the police's wanted list, a Kalashnikov gun, two F-1 grenades, and 370 cartridges, 7.62 and 9 millimeters in caliber, have been found at the site of clashes between the militants and the police.
The news about the liquidation of the three Chechen militants in Daghestan was broken to reporters by Interior Minister Adilgerei Magomedtagirov at a press conference Friday. According to the Daghestani minister, the militants had been plotting a terrorist attack in Kizlyar.
The operation to foil the attack was carried out by the Daghestani Interior Ministry in conjunction with the Russian Federal Security Service's republican department. Light armored vehicles were used.
As was reported earlier, two policemen were killed in the shoot-out.
