on-Don, February 12, 2010, SPA -- Russia's Interior Ministry said 11 suspected militants have been killed and one police officer was wounded in fighting in the volatile southern province of Ingushetia. Ministry spokesman in Ingushetia Madina Khadzieva said Friday the fighting erupted after police surrounded a group of militants in the forested mountains near the administrative border with Chechnya. The fighting Thursday was one of the largest clashes between federal forces and militants in Russia's troubled North Caucasus in recent months, AP reported.