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2 police killed, 3 wounded in southern Russia

(Agencies)
Updated: 2010-01-28 04:33
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MOSCOW: Police officials in southern Russia say two police officers have been killed and three others have been wounded in two separate incidents.

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A spokeswoman for Ingushetia's Interior Ministry says suspected Islamic militants opened fire on a police car Wednesday killing two and wounding two more in the Nazran district of the violence-plagued province.

Madina Khadziyeva also said a group of militants clashed with riot police in the Sundzha district, wounding one officer.

Ingushetia is at the center of the recent upsurge in violence linked to an Islamist insurgency that has been rocking Russia's North Caucasus.

It borders Chechnya, where Russian troops have fought two full-scale wars against separatist rebels in the past 15 years.
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