MAKHACHKALA. June 8 (Interfax) - Six militants are believed to have been killed in a security operation in the town of Yuzhno-Sukhokumsk in Dagestan, a source in the republic's law enforcement agencies told Interfax.
"The active phase [of the operation] has been completed. The dead bodies of six militants have been found. None of the officers was killed or injured. An examination of the site continues," he said.
The Russian National Antiterrorist Committee reported on Friday morning that members of the so-called Kizlyar gang had been trapped inside an apartment in a five-storey residential building in Dagestan's Yuzhno-Sukhokumsk.