Image from The BBCClashes Kill Over 20 In Russia Region -- New York Times
MOSCOW — More than 20 people were killed in violent clashes in Russia’s North Caucasus region in the last two days, including a mysterious attack on seven women in a sauna, underscoring the Kremlin’s continued struggles to bring the volatile area under control.
In one of the first attacks, on Thursday night, about 10 men opened fire with automatic weapons on a police post in the city of Buinaksk in Dagestan, killing four officers, the investigative branch of the prosecutor general’s office said in a statement. The gunmen then entered the sauna complex a short distance away and killed seven women who worked there, in a rare attack on unarmed civilians.
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More News On The Unrest In The Caucasus
Four Russian police killed in Chechen clashes -- AFP
4 police, 2 militants die in Chechnya gun battle -- AP
Gun attacks kill 14 in Russian republic -- ABC News (Australia)
Two policemen killed in Russia's Dagestan -- Reuters
Many dead in fresh Caucasus clashes -- Al Jazeera
11 killed in attack in Russia's Dagestan region: reports -- AFP
11 Killed in Russia During Attacks on Police, Sauna -- Digital Journal
South Ossetia Tries to Disarm Its Citizens -- New York Times
'Political murders' aim to destabilise Caucasus: Medvedev -- Zeenews
Medvedev Decries Chechen Killings -- Washington Post
Caucasus: The War That Was, The World War That Might Have Been -- Global Research
Center of Rebel Strikes Shifts to Dagestan -- Jamestown Foundation