Russian army and secret police units on Monday killed eight suspected insurgents rebelling against Kremlin rule in the violent North Caucasus region, a statement from the National Anti-Terrorist Committee said. According to dpa, five men and one woman died when an army unit assaulted a house in the Kabardino-Balkariya territory, and two men died when agents from Russia's FSB national intelligence agency raided a barricaded house in the territory Dagestan.