MOSCOW, November 20 (RIA Novosti) - One riot police officer has been killed and another one injured in the course of a special police operation in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, the Interior Ministry reported on Tuesday.
The ministry said an unknown assailant “fired at law enforcement officers when riot police blocked a house” in the village of Gubden while conducting a special operation against suspected criminals.
Over a decade after the end of a war against Islamist separatists in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, Russian security forces continue to fight militants across the volatile region.
The Islamist insurgency, once confined largely to Chechnya, has spread in recent years across the North Caucasus. Attacks on security forces, police and civilians are also reported regularly in the neighboring republics of Ingushetia, Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria.
