At least seven dead in attack in Russia’’s Dagestan

GEO 436 MOSCOW: At least seven people were killed on Thursday in an attack in Russia’’s troubled southern region of Dagestan, the local branch of the Federal Security Service said. “Seven or eight people were killed in the attack,” the official said, adding that the victims were workers who were repairing a television transmitter but without specifying the nature of the attack. “Police were sent to the scene and a shootout is currently in progress with the attackers,” he added. The local pro-Kremlin authorities in Dagestan and other North Caucasus regions are battling to defeat an Islamist insurgency that has already left scores of civilians and police dead.

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