Officers killed in North Caucasus

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Militants attacked a police convoy in Ingushetia on Saturday, killing nine officers and wounding another ten. The attack happened in Ingushetia's district of Sundja, which borders Chechnya. Ingushetia and Chechnya are two republics of the Russian Federation.

Police and military investigators examine the scene of an explosion  in the North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, near Nazran, Monday  June 22 2009. A suicide car bomber attacked the convoy that the  president of the troubled Russian region of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek  Yevkurov , was traveling in Monday, critically wounding the  president and killing or wounding others.(AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)

Using machine guns and grenades, the attackers destroyed three of the four police vehicles, which were traveling from Chechnya as part of a joint anti-terrorism operation. While violence has largely died down in Chechnya, an Islamic insurgency mounts almost daily attacks in other provinces of the North Caucasus.