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Police say two senior officers have been killed in separate shootings in Russia's North Caucasus region. A high-level anti-corruption officer was shot outside a restaurant early today in Dagestan and gunmen shot an anti-organized crime officer in Kabardino-Balkaria. Abu Isupkhadzhiyev, the emir of the village of Pervomaiskaya in the Grozny region, killed himself with a grenade as police closed in on his hideout.