The police of Dagestan are identifying the two militants killed in a special operation in Makhachkala on Monday evening, RIA Novosti reports.
The militants were surrounded on 43 Dachnaya Street in Kyakhultay on Monday at 19.00 (Moscow time). They refused to surrender, opened fire and attempted to escape. No police officers were injured.
A counter-terrorism regime came into force at 19.45 (Moscow time). The two militants burned inside the apartment they were renting.
The National Counter-Terrorism Committee said that four militants were killed in Dagestan on Monday. They include a militant leader Israpil Valizhanov, nicknamed Amirhasan, appointed by Doku Umarov in October 2010.
One of the other militants is a cousin of suicide-bomber Maryam Sharipova, who blew up the Lubyanka subway station in Moscow, Kommersant reports.
Magomed Adalayev, a local from Balakhan, was identified among the dead militants.
Sharipova activated the bomb in the Moscow subway on March 29. She was the wife of a Dagestani militant leader, Magomedali Vagabov. Vagabov was killed in Dagestan in August 2010.
