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Al-Qaeda 'coordinator' killed in Russia's Dagestan

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One of two militants killed in a shootout with police in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Dagestan late on Sunday was an Algerian member of al-Qaeda, a security official told RIA Novosti.

MAKHACHKALA/MOSCOW, August 31 (RIA Novosti) - One of two militants killed in a shootout with police in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Dagestan late on Sunday was an Algerian member of al-Qaeda, a security official told RIA Novosti.

The militants were killed in an operation carried out by the local Federal Security Service near the town of Khasavyurt, close to the border with Chechnya. Two officers were injured in the clash, the FSB official said on Monday.

"A foreign mercenary killed in the special operation has been identified. He is an Algerian national, al-Qaeda's coordinator in Dagestan, known among the militants as Doctor Muhammad," the official said.

Another security source in Dagestan said the Al-Qaeda militant held French citizenship.

In the republic's capital, Makhachkala, gunmen killed in the early hours of Monday an OMON special police officer. "The criminals knocked at the door where the police officer lived and shot him five times," a police spokesman said.

Militant attacks on troops, police and other officials have been reported almost daily in Dagestan and Russia's other mainly Muslim North Caucasus republics in recent months.

On August 17, Ingushetia was rocked by a suicide bombing which killed at least 24 police officers and injured 136.

Following the blast, Ingushetia's president, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, returned to the republic after spending two months in Moscow recovering from serious injuries sustained in a car bomb attack on his motorcade.

 

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