MAKHACHKALA — A police official says a suspected militant was killed while trying to set up an explosive device in a volatile southern province east of Chechnya.
Regional police spokesman Mark Tolchinsky said Sunday that police shot the militant late Saturday on a highway in the Buinaksk district of Dagestan.
He also says a police officer lost a hand after an explosion on Sunday in the regional capital, Makhachkala.
Tolchinsky says the officer tried to remove a beer can stuffed with explosives from the hood of his car.
The predominantly Muslim province has been plagued by violence that has surged in recent years.
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