After a series of attacks and sabotage operations in Kabardino-Balkaria, the Russian Defence Ministry has announced that it is sending more troops, including members of the Federal Security Service (FSB formerley KGB), to the province.
In recent weeks separatist rebels have carried out a number of attacks on troops and police. One police officer was killed in a gun attack in Nalchik yesterday while a senior civil servant was also killed. A bomb also exploded outside a liquor store and a car bomb was defused at a hotel in the city. On Friday, five people from Moscow were gunned down in the Baksan district. Russian authorities have stated that the five were tourists while rebels have claimed that they were in fact undercover members of the security forces.
The insurgency, which originally flared up in Chechnya, has spread to neighbouring republics over the past two years.
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