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Police say they killed 5 militants in capital of Chechnya region |
2008-01-16 |
![]() Another suspected militant was killed in a separate exchange of gunfire in the center of Grozny late Monday, Chechnya's Interior Ministry said. Tuesday's assault in the city's violent Lenin district came after police surrounded a home where the suspected militants had been living. According to the Interior Ministry, the occupants of the home answered a surrender demand by opening fire, and all four were killed in the ensuing gunbattle. A riot police officer was wounded, the ministry said. |
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