5 Alleged Militants Killed in Shootout
More than 100 police and security agents backed by five armored personnel carriers surrounded a house in the restive southern Russian region of Ingushetia and killed five alleged militants in a shootout, the Interior Ministry said.
The suspects had resisted arrest, opening fire with automatic weapons and throwing grenades, said Yuri Smolyaninov, a spokesman for the regional branch of the Federal Security Service, the main successor to the Soviet KGB.
The alleged militants were suspected in June attacks on Ingush police installations, in which about 90 people were killed, said an official at the Interior Ministry’s branch in the city of Rostov-on-Don.
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