MOSCOW. Jan 20 (Interfax) - Three bandits have been eliminated in a special operation just outside Makhachkala, the National Antiterrorist Committee's information center said.
One of them has been identified as Arslanbek Khasayev, the statement said. "In March 2011 he entered an illegal position by joining the so-called Kadara- and later Makhachkala-based gang," the document said.
The gang is known to have committed a series of terrorist crimes, the NAC said.
The special operation is now over, there have been no losses among law enforcement forces and civilians, the NAC information center said.