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Caucasus Corpse Count
One policeman was killed and six wounded when a motor vehicle carrying a police squad on an emergency mission hit a mine in Grozny on Wednesday," the press service of the Regional Operations Headquarters told Interfax-AVN on Thursday.Investigators of a district police department came under fire upon arrival at the scene. A policeman in the group was killed, and the head of the district police department was wounded. The assailants escaped, the press center said. In other developments, a remote-controlled mine went off, hitting a convoy between the villages of Eshilkhatoi and Oktyabrsky in the Vedeno district. Two police officials and a driver were wounded. A resident suspected of assisting militants, providing them with intelligence about the movement of military units and giving refuge to militants has been detained in Shali, the press center said. Posted by: Dan Darling 2006-05-26 |
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