Five militants, including Shamil-Khadzhi Muskiyev, a guerrilla close to the alleged successor to late Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov, were killed in the town of Argun, Chechnya's First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov told Interfax on Wednesday. "An armed clash erupted between law enforcement officers and illegal armed group members in the town of Argun. Shamil-Khadzhi Muskiyev, Maskhadov's deputy successor, was killed. Another four guerrillas were eliminated as well," he said.Kadyrov described Muskiyev as "the main ideologist of illegal armed groups and Maskhadov's successor Abdul-Khalim Saidullayev's right hand." The official also accused the guerrilla of involvement in the murder of nearly 90 people in the village of Tsatsan-Yurt in the Kurchaloi district.