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| 2005-10-03 |
| A federal soldier was killed and another two wounded in the latest rebel attacks in Chechnya, officials said on Sunday. In one attack on Saturday in the southern Shatoi region, rebels blew up a federal armored vehicle with a radio-controlled land mine. Two servicemen were badly wounded, and one later died in a hospital, the regional branch of Russia’s Interior Ministry said in a statement It also said that in a separate attack on Saturday, a group of Russian soldiers was ambushed by rebels near the village of Avtury. One Russian serviceman was wounded in the skirmish, while the rebels fled. In another southern region, Vedeno, a federal soldier has been missing since Friday, and in Chechnya’s provincial capital, Grozny, an officer of the local police force and a regional administration worker have been missing since Thursday, the local police said. Rebels frequently kill or kidnap local residents who work for the Moscow-backed Chechen administration. Separately, in the restive neighboring province of Dagestan, police killed two suspected militants who resisted arrest in the Khasavyurt region near Chechnya. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |