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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/
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/