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| Four Police Killed In Ambush In Russia's Dagestan |
| 2013-07-15 |
| [AnNahar] Four police were rubbed out on Sunday in an ambush by unknown gunnies in Russia's violence-plagued Caucasus region of Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republiccurrently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... , the local interior ministry said. The police drove to the village of Burshi where they had received a report of a robbery, and were rubbed out as they were leaving the area, Russian news agencies quoted the Interior Ministry as saying. A largely Mohammedan region on the Caspian Sea, Dagestan has become Russia's worst trouble spot in recent years with almost daily attacks on the security forces blamed on Islamist Death Eaters. |
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