One police officer and two suspected militants have been killed in a shootout in Russia's Dagestan.
Daghestan police spokeswoman Fatina Ubaydatova said on December 30 that traffic police officers were trying to stop a car with suspected militants outside the city of Khasavyurt late on December 29 when people in that vehicle opened fire on them, RFE/RL reports.
Police identified the two men as local militants who attacked policemen earlier this week in the regional capital, Makhachkala. Two officers were killed and one injured in that attack, police said.
