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| Caucasus |
| 5 rebels killed in Ingushetia |
| 2003-06-19 |
| Ingushetia and Chechnya used to make up the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Area. The two groups are ethnically distinct Five militants were killed by the Russian Defence Ministry's special task force in the Sunzha district, Ingushetia, bordering Chechnya. According to a source in the Ingush Interior Ministry, a group of 40 militants was discovered outside the village of Chemulga in the course of a 'mopping-up' operation. "The special task force entered into a clash with the bandits, killing five of them, while the rest escaped into a forest," said RIA Novosti's source. "The commander of the special task force's reconnaissance group was slightly wounded." Earlier, on June 17, a group of bandits had attacked a reconnaissance group of the Russian Defence Ministry near the village of Muzhichi, Sunzha district. The gang, which consisted of up to ten people, attacked the reconnaissance group of the Defence Ministry's army commandant's office but was dispersed by fire and escaped into woodland. Searching the site afterwards, the law enforcers found seven grenade launchers and a cache of ammunition. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |