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| Caucasus |
| Top Chechen police officer killed in car boom |
| 2004-06-12 |
| A car-bomb blast killed a top police officer in the Chechen capital Grozny as fighting persisted in the war-ravaged Russian region, an official in the Moscow-backed government said Saturday. The head of the police patrol service in Grozny, Bagrudi Umarov, was killed along with a driver and another officer Friday when a bomb placed beneath his car exploded, the official said on condition of anonymity. One policeman was wounded in the blast. In other violence in the past day, three Russian servicemen and one rebel fighter were killed in a clash near the town of Vedeno, in southern Chechnya, and two rebels were detained after the firefight, the official said. Two other Russian servicemen were killed and 10 wounded in rebel attacks on Russian positions, the official said. He said there were 18 such attacks over the previous 24 hours. Russian forces targeted suspected rebel positions in several parts of Chechnya with artillery, and at least 300 people across the region were detained during security sweeps. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |