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Summary Four police officers were killed in an ambush in a restive province in Russia's North Caucasus.
Unidentified gunmen killed four police officers and wounded two others in an ambush in a restive province in Russias North Caucasus, officials said Wednesday.Interior Ministry spokesman Andrei Zvyagintsev said the militants ambushed police while they were conducting a security sweep in a forest near the village of Dattykh in the province of Ingushetia. The attackers fled.Gunmen killed six police officers in Dattykh last month by blowing up the lead vehicle in a convoy and then opening fire on following vehicles.Ingushetia and other provinces in Russias North Caucasus have been destabilized by an Islamic insurgency, which has spread across the region after two separatist wars in Chechnya.In another attack in the province of Dagestan east of Chechnya, an unidentified assailant threw a hand grenade into the window of a police precinct in the Caspian sea town of Buinaksk on Wednesday, wounding two police officers, the Interior Ministry said.
