A police official says a suspected militant was killed while trying to set up an explosive device in a volatile southern province east of Chechnya, AP reported. Regional police spokesman Mark Tolchinsky said Sunday that police shot the militant late Saturday on a highway in the Buinaksk district of Dagestan. He also says a police officer lost a hand after an explosion on Sunday in the regional capital, Makhachkala. Tolchinsky says the officer tried to remove a beer can stuffed with explosives from the hood of his car.
