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Five dead, three wounded in violence in Russia's Caucasus
Dec 14, 2011, 13:12 GMT
Moscow - Five people were killed and three wounded during violence in Russia's Caucasus region on Wednesday, Interfax news agency reported.
Russian soldiers shot dead four suspected rebel fighters in a mountainous area of the Kabardino-Balkaria district, some 1,400 kilometres south of the capital Moscow, the agency wrote.
In a separate incident, insurgents killed a senior police investigator in a road ambush in the Caspian Sea port of Kaspisk.
In the neighbouring district of Ingushetia, three Russian army engineers were injured by a remote-controlled bomb, a military spokeswoman said.
Russian troops control major cities and towns in the Caucasus, but have been unable to stamp out armed resistance in the territory's rugged mountains and forests.
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