separate militant attacks in South Russia

Attacks on troops and police in two of Russia’s Caucasus republics overnight left one dead and two injured, local police said on Monday. A soldier was killed and another seriously wounded when gunmen attacked a group near a rail terminal in the town of Khasavyurt, west of Daghestan’s capital Makhachkaka, at midnight local time, police said
Most likely in a Zhiguli car without a license plate, fired automatic weapons at a group of soldiers, who were due to board a troop train from Chechnya," police said. In Kabardino-Balkaria, a police officer was injured when an unknown attacker fired two shots at the officer as he entered his apartment block after work. The police officer returned fire, but the attacker fled the scene. He was hospitalized with a wrist injury.