MAKHACHKALA, January 02,  /ITAR-TASS/. National security forces managed to persuade a militant, blocked in a house in Dagestan’s Khasavyurt, to release a child from the house, local law enforcement authorities report.

“The house was blocked at night; in the course of the negotiations, which continue since night, we managed to persuade the militant to release the child from the house,” the source said. “The mission continues.