NALCHIK, Russia (AP)  At least 14 militant suspects and two police officers have been killed in three raids in the country’s volatile North Caucasus region, the police said Saturday.

Nine suspects were killed in two separate shootouts with the police in the Kabardino-Balkariya Republic late Friday, a police spokesman said.

Two of those killed were suspected of organizing a bombing in May that killed one man and wounded dozens of others, Russia’s main investigative body said in a statement.

Separately, five militant suspects and two police officers were killed in a shootout Friday in the Dagestan Republic, said a police spokesman, Magomed Tagirov.