Russian security forces engaged in a firefight on Sunday with a gunman they surrounded in a house in a village in Dagestan, an antiterrorism official in the Russian republic said.
The official identified the man as Shakhban Aliyev. He said that despite the shooting no special precautions were being taken in the village of Komsomolskoye in the Kizilyurt District, although the area surrounding the house had been sealed off.
On Sunday in the capital of Dagestan, Makhachkala, at least eight militants were killed in a counterterrorist operation.
Earlier in the day in Makhachkala, the head of an international department for the fight against extremism in Russia's North Caucasus Federal District was shot dead as he drove to work.
PYATIGORSK, September 12 (RIA Novosti)
