Police spokeswoman Fatina Ubaidatova said two gunmen were killed late yesterday after they allegedly fired on police who tried to stop their vehicle for a check outside the village of Stalskoye.
Ubaidatova said today another two suspected militants were killed in a separate clash with law enforcement agents in the village of Kvanada.
Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim province on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, has become the epicenter of the Islamist insurgency following the two separatist wars in neighboring Chechnya.
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