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| Caucasus |
| Caucasus Corpse Count |
| 2004-03-23 |
| Ten Russian servicemen and local policemen died in skirmishes and explosions staged by rebels in Chechnya over the past 24 hours, an official with Chechnya's Moscow-backed administration said Monday. Rebel attacks on military positions killed six servicemen and wounded seven, while a land mine explosion killed two members of a patrol outside the village of Komsomolskoye in the southern Urus-Martan district, the official said on condition of anonymity. Four others were wounded in an explosion Sunday. A patrol car was blown up in the village of Prigorodnoye on the outskirts of the regional capital, Grozny, killing a Chechen policeman and wounding two others, the official said. A security guard for Moscow-backed Chechen leader Akhmad Kadyrov died after being fired on from a passing car in Grozny on Monday, the official said. Russian forces unleashed artillery barrages on suspected rebel bases in the forested mountains of the Achkhoi-Martan, Itum-Kale and Urus-Martan regions of Chechnya, the official said. More than 140 civilians were detained in the latest mopping-up operations aimed at weeding out rebel sympathizers, he said. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |