| Two Federal servicemen have been killed, and two more wounded, as a result of a gunfight with Chechen rebels, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported on Friday, citing a source in the Chechen Interior Ministry. âAt about 08:00 on the previous day, unidentified persons fired automatic weapons and grenade launchers at a field engineersâ detail of one of the units of Russiaâs Interior Ministry troops,â the source said. According to the source, one conscript and one contract soldier were killed in the attack. Two conscripts were wounded. The source also said that five rebel fighters had been killed by return fire. Their bodies are being identified, he said. At the scene of the fight, the federal servicemen discovered three grenade launchers, a machinegun and two assault rifles, two homemade hand grenades, electric detonators, and a large quantity of ammunition, the agency reported. |