“Attackers have fired grenades at the interior ministry in Russia’s restive republic of Ingushetia.

At least one policeman was killed and others were injured in the attack on the building, which also houses the local police headquarters.

Several assailants fired around five grenades into the building before fleeing in a car after Monday’s attack in the regional capital Nazran.

“Police in Russia’s south killed two suspected militants early Thursday in a counterterrorism operation launched in response to a suicide blast that took the lives of six officers.

An area on the outskirts of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, has been in lockdown since Wednesday’s suicide car bombing at a police station as authorities hunted for the masterminds and their accomplices.