Three "militants" were killed in a shootout with police in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan. Security officials in Dagestan claimed that a special police operation in the Khasavyurt district killed Yusup Magomedov, the leader of the Khasavyurt gang, along with an unknown number of his associates.
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