Advanced Search
Business | Metro | Nation | World | Sports | Features | Specials | Delta Stories
 
 
Russian police kill terrorist gang chief: reports
17/9/2008 17:20

The Russia police have killed a terrorist gang leader and nine of his companies in the Caucasus republic of Dagestan, Itar-Tass news agency reported today, citing local official.
"The gang got caught in an ambush, staged by men of the special task group of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia" and their mini-bus was fired by a grenade launcher, said a spokesperson of the local FSB department.
One police was wounded during the operation and died later in hospital, he said.
The identity of the dead has been checked as from the group of Navruzov-Ragimkhanov, the so-called emir of Dagestan, said the spokesman.


Xinhua