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Two militants killed in Daghestan special operation

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MAKHACHKALA, February 24 (RIA Novosti) - At least two members of an illegal militant group have been killed in a special police operation in the North Caucasus republic of Daghestan, a local FSB source said Saturday.

According to earlier reports, three militants were surrounded in a house in Dagestan's Kizlyar

district Saturday morning.

"The special operation has been completed," said Nikolai Gryaznov, the head of the Daghestan branch of the Federal Security Service (FSB).

"Two militants have been killed," he said, adding that the body of the third militant could be under the ruins of the house.

Policed used armored vehicles to destroy the house because the militants were well-barricaded and responded to the police assault with heavy automatic fire.

Gryaznov said the militants were presumably members of Takhir Badayev's group involved in up to 50 serious crimes committed in the Shelkovskoy district of Chechnya.

An FSB officer has been wounded in the operation, the official said.

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