A police officer was wounded late on Wednesday when unknown assailants opened fire on a police checkpoint in Dagestan, the Russian North Caucasus republic’s interior ministry reported on Thursday.
The ministry said four people stole a Hyundai Accent car from a Dagestani resident and used it to fire at the checkpoint near the Sultanyangiyurt village and flee the scene.
The car was discovered nearby. A Makarov handgun was seized from the site.
Despite the official end of the federal counterterrorism operation in Chechnya in April 2009, the violence rages on elsewhere. It has spread far beyond the Chechen borders to the neighboring republics of Dagestan, Ingushetia, and Kabardino-Balkaria, among others.
