okesman told RIA Novosti.
"Police were involved in a shootout with militants in the Kaytagsky District," the spokesman said. "Their identities have yet to be established."
Russia's North Caucasus has seen a rise in militant violence of late, with frequent attacks on federal troops, police and other officials.
Last week, 11 people were killed when militants attacked a police post and a health center in Dagestan. On Monday, a suicide bomber killed over 20 police officers in neighboring Ingushetia.
Both republics neighbor Chechnya, the scene of two brutal separatist wars in the 1990s and the early 2000s.
Makhachkala port and capital of Dagestan republic, southwestern Russia. The city is situated along the western shore of the Caspian Sea, at the northern end of a narrow coastal plain. Founded as the Petrovskoye fortress in 1844, it became Petrovsk Port in 1857 and was renamed in 1921 after the Dagestani revolutionary Makhach.
Present-day Makhachkala is a seaport linking the North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, and southern Ukraine with the western regions of Kazakhstan. It also serves as the terminal of an oil pipeline from Grozny.
Its industries include machine building and chemical and textile manufacturing. Makhachkala has a branch of the Academy of Sciences, a university, and medical, agricultural, and teacher-training institutes. Pop. (2006 est.) 466,331.
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