Hijjah 21, 1431 / Nov. 27, 2010, SPA -- A police officer and a soldier have been killed by gunmen in Russia's restive southern province of Dagestan, officials said Saturday. According to AP, the police officer was attacked by gunmen late Friday in the town of Khasavyurt and died of wounds on the way to a hospital, said Vyacheslav Gasanov, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry's regional office. In a separate attack early Saturday a group of gunmen detonated an explosive device near a railway and ambushed a group of soldiers that responded to the incident, the ministry said. One soldier was wounded and later died in a hospital.
