File picture shows Russian special police searching the bodies of militants killed in a clash in Dagestan province. Russian special forces killed 10 suspected rebels Wednesday in a shoot-out in the restive province of Dagestan, a law-enforcement official said. (AFP/News Team/File/Sergei Rasulov)MOSCOW, (AFP) - Russian special forces killed 10 suspected rebels Wednesday in a shoot-out in the restive province of Dagestan, a law-enforcement official said.
One policeman died in a gun battle after officers from Russia's FSB special services surrounded the rebels, the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"At 1:00 a.m. Wednesday (2100 GMT Tuesday) a counter-terror operation was launched. By morning 10 militants had been killed," the official said. "One FSB special forces officer was seriously injured and died in hospital."
The gun battle erupted after the rebels were discovered near the village of Smurt, a law-enforcement official was quoted as saying by ITAR-TASS news agency.
Interfax reported that the rebels commander, Zakir Novruzov, was killed in the battle.
Members of the military and police forces have repeatedly come under attack in the past in mountainous Dagestan, a hotbed of rebel activity in the North Caucasus that neighbours Russia's war-ravaged Chechnya region.
My Comment: This is an internal war that will bog down Russian forces for decades. It will make the British war against the IRA in Northern Ireland a cakewalk in comparison.
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