Gunmen fire on targets in Russia's Dagestan region, six police killed

Gunmen opened fire at a synagogue, an Orthodox church and a police post in Russia's North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Sunday, killing six police officers and injuring 12, the region's Russian news agencies quoted the Interior Ministry as saying.
A local religious organization in the mainly Muslim region put the death toll at nine, including seven police officers.
The Interior Ministry, quoted by Russian news agencies, said four gunmen had been shot dead as the incidents unfolded. A local official said another had been killed during a shootout at a church in Makhachkala, the region's main administrative centre.
 

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