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| 2006-05-26 |
| One policeman was killed and six wounded when a motor vehicle carrying a police squad on an emergency mission hit a mine in Grozny on Wednesday," the press service of the Regional Operations Headquarters told Interfax-AVN on Thursday. Investigators of a district police department came under fire upon arrival at the scene. A policeman in the group was killed, and the head of the district police department was wounded. The assailants escaped, the press center said. In other developments, a remote-controlled mine went off, hitting a convoy between the villages of Eshilkhatoi and Oktyabrsky in the Vedeno district. Two police officials and a driver were wounded. A resident suspected of assisting militants, providing them with intelligence about the movement of military units and giving refuge to militants has been detained in Shali, the press center said. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |