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Caucasus Corpse Count
Two Russian interior ministry soldiers, including an officer, and two pro-Moscow Chechen police officers were killed in the past 24 hours in war-torn Chechnya, officials said on Tuesday. Six others were wounded in the series of rebel attacks in the separatist Russian republic, the Chechen interior ministry said. An explosive device blew up late Monday, not far from the capital Grozny, under an armoured personnel carrier transporting Russian OMON Special Forces into the city, the ministry spokesman said. "Two of them died, including an officer," and two others were hospitalised with wounds, he said. Also on Monday night, a Chechen policeman was shot dead by three masked men wearing military camouflage in the northeastern district of Shelkovskoi, the official said. Another Chechen police officer died Tuesday morning in the Grozny central market, gunned down according to witnesses by a young man aged about 18 who fled the scene. Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-05-26 |
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