
Russian Forces In 'deadly' Raid Against Caucasus Militants
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published August 17, 2016 | 07:56 PM

MOSCOW, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 17th August, 2016) : Heavily-armed Russian special forces on Wednesday raided an apartment building in Saint Petersburg in an operation targeting North Caucasus militants, reportedly killing two suspects. The FSB security service said in a statement quoted by Russian agencies that the raid was part of an operation to detain "wanted persons accused of participating in illegal armed groups in the North Caucasus". "Criminals were destroyed by return fire when they attempted to resist," the FSB said, without specifying how many suspects were killed. Local online newspaper Fontanka.ru reported that two alleged militants were killed and three arrested.
tv footage showed heavily-armed men in balaclavas cordoning off the multistorey apartment block on the outskirts of the northwestern city famed for its tsarist-era palaces. "I heard several explosions and then a series of what sounded like gunshots," a man who said he was a resident of a neighbouring apartment building told Rossiya 24 television. Special operations against suspected Islamists are frequent in Russia's North Caucasus region but have been rare in Moscow and Saint Petersburg in recent years. Russia has battled a simmering insurgency in the Caucasus ever since fighting two brutal separatist conflicts with Chechnya.
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