MAKHACHKALA, August 19 (RIA Novosti) - Three militants were killed in a shootout with police in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan early on Wednesday, a police spokesman told RIA Novosti.
"Police were involved in a shootout with militants in the Kaytagsky District," the spokesman said. "Their identities have yet to be established."
Russia's North Caucasus has seen a rise in militant violence of late, with frequent attacks on federal troops, police and other officials.
Last week, 11 people were killed when militants attacked a police post and a health center in Dagestan. On Monday, a suicide bomber killed over 20 police officers in neighboring Ingushetia.
Both republics neighbor Chechnya, the scene of two brutal separatist wars in the 1990s and the early 2000s.
