Russia: Security forces conduct antiterrorist operation in Ingushetia

Publisher Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Publication Date 8 April 2013
Cite as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Russia: Security forces conduct antiterrorist operation in Ingushetia, 8 April 2013, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/519a6b523f.html [accessed 17 September 2023]
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April 08, 2013

Police stand near debris at the site of a suicide bombing at a checkpoint on the border between the regions of North Ossetia and Ingushetia in October 2012.Police stand near debris at the site of a suicide bombing at a checkpoint on the border between the regions of North Ossetia and Ingushetia in October 2012.

Four suspected militants have been killed in a special operation in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia.

One security officer was also killed in the shootouts.

Local police officials say a group of gunmen opened fire at police officers early on April 8 in the village of Dalakovo.

A counterterrorism operation in the village is continuing.

Ingushetia, along with Russia's other volatile North Caucasus republics such as Kabardino-Balkaria, Daghestan, and Chechnya, continues to experience violence linked to Islamic extremists and organized criminal groups.

Based on reporting by RIA Novosti and Interfax

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