During a raid in Dagestan's Khasavyurt, four suspected Islamist militants and three security force members were killed in a shootout; five security force members were wounded in the operation. Investigators said one of the dead militants was Marat Idrisov, who is thought to have planned the car bombing in Pyatigorsk that killed three people in late December.
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