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Four militants killed, dozens detained in Chechnya | |
2017-01-15 | |
[RFE/RL] Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has said that dozens of suspected militants were detained and four of them killed in a special security operation in Chechnya on January 11. He said, "Four militants were annihilated during a special operation in the populated areas of the Kurchaloi district," while one member of the security forces was killed. Mines, explosives, ammunition, and weapons were reportedly seized from the detained militants. One armed suspect escaped into the night but he was being tracked down, according to Kadyrov. He said that some of the gunmen were close relatives of Isa Muskiyev,
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