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/ 18 October 2005
Shooting broke out on Tuesday morning in three districts of the southern Russian city of Nalchik, as police and security forces said they were launching special operations to detain suspected militants. Alleged Islamic extremists conducted a coordinated series of attacks on police and other government buildings in the city last Thursday.
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/ 13 October 2005
Police and security forces on Thursday battled gunmen in the capital of the southern Russian region of Kabardino-Balkariya, including near a school near a police station. Schoolchildren were evacuated and black smoke billowed from the building as panic-stricken parents searched for their children in the schoolyard.