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discount ugg boots, June 26 (UPI) -- The Dagestan government announced Saturday that a leading militant commander had been killed in a skirmish with police earlier in the day.
Dzhamalutdin Dzhavatov was identified as the leader of the Karamakhin organization and had been blamed for a June 24 attack on a police patrol that left two officers dead in the Russian republic.
Deputy Interior Minister Magomed Ismailov told the RIA Novosti news agency that Dzhavatov died in a police operation in the Karabudakhkent district of Dagestan.
The Kremlin has been locked in a running battle with militants in Dagestan and other republics in the mainly Muslim North Caucasus.Topics related articles: