(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Three militans and two policemen were killed in a shoot-out following an attack on police in Russia's Chechnya region, Chechnya' leader Ramzan Kadyrov said Monday.
Blaming militants for being ISIS-linked, Kadyrov said that they attacked a police post in Chali, a town about 30 kilometres (20 miles) south of the capital Grozny, during the night.
Two policemen and three assailants were killed during the fire-fight, Kadyrov was quoted as saying in a statement from his office. Two civilians were wounded.
A dwindling group of insurgents are still fighting the authorities in Chechnya and across the volatile North Caucasus and sporadically launch eye-catching attacks.
Fourteen security officers were killed when armed militants stormed several buildings in Grozny on the day of President Vladimir Putin's state of the nation address in December 2014.
The Russian North Caucasus is one of the major sources of foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq.
The FSB security service last month said it had killed a regional "emir" of the ISIS group in a raid.
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30 January 2017 - 14:03
News ID: 808244
Three militans and two policemen were killed in a shoot-out following an attack on police in Russia's Chechnya region, Chechnya' leader Ramzan Kadyrov said Monday.
