Three suspected Islamic insurgents blew themselves up as security forces stormed the private house where they were hiding in an Ingush village Friday, and the widow of one of them attacked investigators at the house later in the day, killing one police officer.
Security forces stormed the house in Ekazhevo, 3 kilometers north of the Ingush capital, Magas, early Friday, the Investigative Committee said.
The three men inside helped organize twin bombings that killed two people and 13 others outside the police station in the Ingush village of Karabulak last Monday and oversaw a number of other bombings in the republic, the Federal Security Service said in a statement carried by RIA-Novosti.
Ten law enforcement officials were injured in the storming of the house, including four police officers, three FSB officers, and two military servicemen, news reports said.
Several hours later, at about 1:20 p.m., a young woman opened fire at investigators working at the private house, injuring a police officer who died as he was being rushed to the hospital, the Investigative Committee said.
The woman then detonated a homemade bomb that she was carrying, dying on the spot. No one was injured in the explosion.
The woman was the widow of one of the three rebels who blew themselves up in the morning, an unidentified official in the Ingush branch of the Investigative Committee told Interfax.
The Investigative Committee identified her as Marina Yevloyeva, a 25-year-old resident of the neighboring village of Kantyshevo.
Ekazhevo is the village where senior rebel leader Said Buryatskty died when security forces stormed the house where he was hiding on March 2.