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Caucasus Corpse Count |
2005-08-23 |
Officials say Chechnya's law-enforcement bodies have killed the self-designated "emir" of the Urus-Martan Raion, Ruslan Vakhayev. The Interior Ministry's press center in the North Caucasus said Vakhayev was responsible for an attack on the village of Roshni-Chu earlier this month, killing the commander of Urus-Martan, Colonel Aleksandr Kayak. Meanwhile, in southern Chechnya, a local official, Ramzan Tasukhanov, said a gun battle has wounded five paramilitary soldiers and a local resident. Pro-Moscow security forces were searching for gunmen in the Shali area when the firing erupted outside a house yesterday evening. |
Posted by:Dan Darling |