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    RUSSIAN POLICE KILL TARTAR MILITANTS

    United Press International UPI
    Oct 25 2012

    YEREVAN, Armenia, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Russian police and federal security
    service killed two alleged militants in Russia's Tatarstan.

    Tatarstan is a predominantly Islamic autonomous republic within the
    Russian Federation.

    "The gunmen were killed in the police assault on the building,"
    Russian Investigative committee member Vladimir Markin said. "They
    were suspects in the recent attacks on Muslim leaders in Tatarstan."

    Russian officials fear the turmoil in the northern Caucasus will
    spread to the wider areas of the Russian Federation, where Chechen
    attacks since 2001 have bedeviled the efforts of Moscow to quell the
    insurgency, Panarmenian.net online news agency reported Wednesday.

    Markin said the suspects were surrounded in a building in Tatarstan's
    capital, Kazan, and offered substantial resistance, killing a Russian
    security officer and injuring two others in a grenade blast. He said
    the suspects refused to surrender during the gun battle.

    Following the operation, Russian police said they found three handguns,
    ammunition, and parts of improvised explosive devices at the scene. One
    of the militants was reportedly wearing a belt containing explosives.

    http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2012/10/25/Russian-police-kill-Tartar-militants/UPI-40501351192754/

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