MOSCOW, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Russian police have killed two militants allegedly involved in a number of terrorist attacks, Russian news agencies reported Wednesday. One of the dead men had fought in Afghanistan as a Taliban supporter, reports said.

    Police blocked Ruslan Odizhev and Anzor Tengizov in the yard of an apartment house in the North Caucasus city of Nalchik Wednesday morning, Itar-Tass news agency reported, citing law-enforcement department sources.

    "According to the information supplied by U.S. partners, Odizhev was a Taliban supporter, and took part in the fighting on the Taliban's side in Afghanistan. He was also a Guantanamo inmate," Itar-Tass quoted an unnamed officer of the Federal Security Service as saying.

    "Odizhev, 33, took an active part in the activities of the religious-extremist community, was one of the organizers of the prevented armed revolt in Kabardino-Balkaria in 2001, and abetted the blasting of apartment houses in Moscow and Volgodonsk," said the officer.

    Police found at the scene of the shootout two pistols, other firearms, a grenade, maps of Nalchik and North Caucasus, and three homemade bombs on the body of Odizhev, Itar-Tass said.