MOSCOW, February 10 (RIA Novosti) - The number of militants killed when special forces, police and troops stormed a building a southern Russia has risen to 12, the Interior Ministry said Friday.
Previously, 11 gunmen were thought to have been killed in the village of Tukui-Mekteb in the Stavropol Territory, which borders on the troubled republic of Chechnya.
Local police chief Viktor Barnash said the militants had been preparing a terrorist attack, probably, a Belsan-style attack on a school, reviving memories of the September 2004 massacre that claimed 331 lives, including 186 children.
"No civilians were injured," he added.
