| Two prosecutors in Chechnya were killed when their car was blown up by a remote-controlled land mine in Grozny. Separately, assailants fatally shot a Chechen policeman after breaking into his house in Gudermes. The land-mine blast killed prosecutors Akhmed Khamzatov and Alexander Leushin. The policeman, Shamkhan Magomadov, was shot at point-blank range by two masked assailants. |