CHERKESSK. June 13 (Interfax) - Units from the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) department for Karachayevo-Cherkessia and the local Interior Ministry killed a man believed to be responsible for attacks on policemen while he offered armed resistance.
"Units of the Russian FSB and Interior Ministry departments for Karachayevo-Cherkessia conducted a series of operations as part of counterterrorist measures, in which Umar Dakhirovich Baichorov, born in 1986 and residing in the village of Pervomaiskoye, the Malokarachayevsky district, was neutralized after offering armed resistance," Anna Lyzina, a spokesperson for the FSB department for Karachayevo-Cherkessia, told Interfax on Wednesday.
None of the commandos involved in the counterterrorist operation or civilians was injured or killed, she said.
Measures are being taken to defuse possible explosive devices and unexploded munitions, after which officials from the Investigative Committee department for Karachayevo-Cherkessia will conduct the necessary investigative procedures, Lyzina said.
It was reported earlier that commandos from the FSB and Interior Ministry encircled a building where people suspected of involvement in armed attacks on policemen from Karachayevo-Cherkessia and the Stavropol territory at the end of 2011 were hiding.
Relatives of one of the gunmen were engaged in negotiations to prompt them to surrender. However, the suspected militants opened fire in response.