Russia's National Anti-terror Center said on Monday more than 13 militants and two police officers were killed in separate operations carried out by security forces in the country's volatile North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan.
While ten militants were killed in the Dagestani capital of Makhachkala, three others, including local warlord Shamil Magomednabiyev, were "eliminated" in the Kizilyurt district's Komsomolskoye village near the border with neighboring Chechnya.
The operations followed assassination of the head of the anti-extremism department in Russia's North Caucasus Federal District. He was reportedly shot dead as he drove to work in Makhachkala.
Russia's North Caucasus Republics, in particular Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia, have in recent times witnessed regular attacks on police and officials.
On Saturday, a bomb placed under a car went off in Dagestan's capital Makhachkala injuring a police officer, while another officer was shot dead on Friday.
And a week ago, the driver of Dagestan's Minister of National Policy, Foreign Relations & Information, Bekmurza Bekmurzayev, was killed and and two of his security guards were injured in an apparent assassination attempt on him.
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