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| Senior officers among 7 killed in Caucasus: reports |
| 2010-07-25 |
| Rantburg translation [Pak Daily Times] Seven people including three senior military officers were killed in a spate of attacks by hard boys in Russia's unrest-plagued North Caucasus region, reports said Saturday. The officers died when they came under fire late Friday in the town of Buynaksk in the region of Dagestan, Russian news agencies and state television reported. ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? Two lieutenant colonels -- the head of the armaments department in the local chief of staff and another senior officer in the department -- gave up the ghost, state television said. ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? The third officer, the head of the rocket and artillery weaponry service for the 136th motorcycle brigade, died on his way to hospital. They have a motorcycle brigade? It has a rocket troops and artillery staff? Two hours later, a Russian serviceman was killed when unidentified individuals entered inside the military base in Buynaksk and stabbed him after stealing his mobile phone, news agencies said. It was not immediately clear if the two incidents were linked. In another fatal attack in Dagestan, the chief administrator in the village of Cherniayevka in the Kizlyar district was shot and killed near his house. |
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