Rebels killed two Russian soldiers and wounded five others in an ambush in southern Chechnya, officials said Sunday.
The rebels hit a Russian armored vehicle with a radio-controlled landmine and sprayed soldiers with automatic gunfire, said Roman Shchekotin, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry's branch in southern Russia.
The attack occurred Saturday near the village of Dargo in the Vedeno region in southern Chechnya's mountains.
In the province of Ingushetia west of Chechnya, unidentified assailants on Sunday blew up a cell phone base station in the town of Malgobek, the regional police said. No one was injured. |