| Five Russian servicemen were killed in attacks and three others by mines in rebel Chechnya over the past day, an official in the Moscow-backed Kremlin administration said Saturday. One of the died from shots fired from a passing car in Grozny, the Chechen capital, the official said on condition of anonymity. Four others were killed in firing on Russian military positions throughout the republic, the official said. Three soldiers died when their vehicle detonated a mine near the village of Itum-Kale, the official said. The Itum-Kale region and two other sectors of Chechnya came under assault from Russian artillery, the official said. On Saturday, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported that a large cache of weapons, ammunition, explosives and timing devices were found in a home in Ingushetia. |