MOSCOW, May 31 (RIA Novosti) - Three suspected militants have been killed and one hostage has been freed in an operation in the troubled North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, a police source said Wednesday.
The source also said that one policeman had been killed and three wounded after law enforcers surrounded a house in which militants had taken a man hostage. The militants later blew up the basement in which they were holed up.
The hostage has been taken to the hospital with a gunshot wound, the source added.
