8 killed in North Caucasus clashes

A spokesman for Russia’s National Anti-Terrorist Committee said on Tuesday that three militants and one policeman had been killed in a clash between government forces and a militant group in the Republic of Dagestan.

In a separate incident, three men and one woman were killed in an exchange of fire with the police in the Republic of Ingushetia.

The firefight erupted when police officers tried to stop a car in the main city of Nazran. The armed occupants, however, opened fire during the police check and were killed by return fire.

Sporadic attacks and militant clashes are common in North Caucasus’ republics, especially Chechnya, Dagestan, and Ingushetia.

Russia has been fighting various waves of insurgencies in the region since the early 1990s, despite the official end of the ‘battle phase’ of the Second Chechen War in 2000.

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