Russian forces have killed 17 rebels during fighting in the volatile North Caucasus region, officials have said.
Clashes took place in Ingushetia, a small province next to Chechnya, Russia's national anti-terrorism committee said.
One report said three Russian police officers had also been killed.
Russia has been struggling to combat an Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus, where insurgents want to create an Islamic state.
The Russian raid involved ground forces and an air strike, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.
"As a result of a pinpoint strike by the air force and a ground operation, a rebel base was destroyed," Nikolay Sentsov, a spokesman for the anti-terrorism committee was quoted as saying.
"Suicide bomber terrorists were being trained there, in particular for terrorist attacks in the republics of North Ossetia and Ingushetia," he added.
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