Suspected killers of Dagestani police officer's sons detained (Part 2)

MOSCOW. Feb 12 (Interfax) - Five persons have been detained in Dagestan on suspicion of killing children of a police officer, a Russian Interior Ministry source told Interfax.

"Five persons have been detained on suspicion of killing two sons of a Dagestani police officer," he said.

Two sons of a Dagestani police officer were killed at their home, a source at the republican department of the Russian Investigative Committee told Interfax on Monday.

"An officer of the Derbent district extra-departmental security service found the bodies of his sons, aged 9 and 11, in his Belinji home after he and his wife had returned upon visiting friends," the source said.

He said the children had stab-wound lacerations.