The Interior Ministry says two senior police officers have been shot dead in two separate incidents in Dagestan. Vyacheslav Gasanov, a spokesman for the ministry's branch in the province of Dagestan, said a senior officer was shot dead late Tuesday outside his house in the provincial capital, Makhachkala. Police in the province of Kabardino-Balkariya said Wednesday that unidentified assailants overnight sprayed the house of a senior officer in the local police force with automatic gunfire, killing him on the spot, according to a report of the Associated Press.
