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At least eight Russian servicemen were killed and 16 others wounded in the latest rebel raids and land mine explosions in Chechnya, an official in the Kremlin-backed Chechen administration said Wednesday. Five federal soldiers were killed and another seven wounded in rebel attacks on military outposts throughout Chechnya in the past 24 hours. Near the village of Uluskert on Tuesday, rebels ambushed a military convoy, killing two soldiers and wounding another five. In the Chechen capital, Grozny, a land mine killed a sapper and wounded two comrades Tuesday. In a customary retaliation to daily raids by rebels, Russian artillery have shelled suspected rebel camps in the forested mountains in the Nozhai-Yurt, Vedeno and Itum-Kale regions. Federal forces detained at least 200 people across Chechnya on suspicion of being linked to rebels, the official said. |