Five militants were killed on Saturday morning in a special operation in Nalchik, the capital of Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, a police source said.
The source told RIA Novosti that the militants had been hiding out in a flat in the city. He also said that no police officers were injured in the operation.
Four militants were also killed on Friday in nearby Dagestan, a spokesman for the republic's Interior Ministry said on Saturday.
Militant violence is common in Russia's mainly Muslim North Caucasus republics, especially Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia.
NALCHIK, August 28 (RIA Novosti)
