MOSCOW. Sept 3 (Interfax) - A militant in Dagestan wanted for attacks against police officers has been killed, the National Antiterrorism Committee (NAC) information center told Interfax on Wednesday.
"The militant has been tentatively identified as Rajab Mustafayev, born in 1978, an accomplice to the Kadar and Makhachkala gangs. Mustafayev was involved in the attack on officers of the Russian Interior Ministry in the Republic of Dagestan, staged in the town of Semender in July 2009," the center said.
NAC added that the militant was killed in Semender in the Kirovsky district of Makhachkala. The police stopped a Lada Priora car to check the driver's identification. The driver disobeyed the police order, opened fire and was killed in the shootout.