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| Caucasus |
| 9 hard boyz iced |
| 2004-06-06 |
| Seven militants have been destroyed in Chechnya over the past 24 hours. A task force of federal troops made an ambush in the woods east of the Kharachoi village, the Vedeno district and trapped a gang of four killing all of the gunmen. The federals seized from the site of the shootout three submachine guns, 20 hand grenades, two grenade launchers and about 3,500 cartridges. Another bandit group was spotted by a federal troops’ unit 10 kilometres off the Serzhen-Yurt village, the Shali district. Three gunmen were killed in the ensuing fire-fight, another two managed to flee and hide in the forest. Three Kalashnikov submachine guns, several grenades and a Kenwood radio station were confiscated from the scene, spokesman for the Regional Operational Staff for Control over Antiterrorist Operation in the North Caucasus Col. Ilya Shabalkin told Itar-Tass on Saturday. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |