Seven militants were killed in the Tsuntinsky district of Dagestan on Tuesday morning, chief of the North-Caucasian regional border guard administration of the Federal Security Service, Lieutenant-General Nikolai Lesinsky, reported. The General did not disclose any details of the operation. On Monday morning the border guards discovered a bandit group in the Tsuntinsky district of Dagestan. Ten border guards were killed in the shootout. The rebel group had up to 40 combatants, according to different data. After the shootout with the border guards the bandits took four residents of the Shauri village hostage and headed for the administrative border between Chechnya and Dagestan. The operation to catch the bandits was immediately put into effect. On Tuesday a group of militants was discovered and blocked in the Galatli village of the Tsuntinsky district of Dagestan. (RIA-Novosti)