PYATIGORSK, Russia, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- A Russian soldier died and another was injured in an attack on a convoy in Dagestan in the north Caucasus region, investigators said Friday.
"Unidentified gunmen attacked a military convoy in the Khasavyurt District," a spokesman for the Dagestan Republic's investigation department said.
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The region has experienced frequent attacks on military officers and law enforcement officials by Islamic insurgents, the Russian news agency RIA-Novosti said Friday.