ROSTOV-ON-DON. Sept 10 (Interfax) - Police officers have blocked a group of militants in the village of Nizhniye in the Makhargi-Makhi (Dagestan), a source from law enforcement agencies in the republic's Sergo-Kalinin district told Interfax on Friday.
"During address checks law enforcement officers blocked a house in which an active Wahhabist supporter is residing. A bullets were fired at combatants from this house. The clash currently continues," the source said.
Early reports suggest that the special force servicemen sustained some losses. Their numbers are being ascertained, he added.
Law enforcement authorities were not immediately available for comment.