Akhmed Dakayev, Chechnya's deputy interior minister, has been shot and killed by rebels in the capital Grozny on Friday, local officials said. "He had gone with his group to check out a report on the presence of the Wahhabite Yunis Akhmadov" in a house in Grozny's Minutka district, Ramzan Magamedov, Grozny's deputy mayor said. | What's a deputy interior minister doing leading a police operation? Doesn't he have minions for this? |
Early on Saturday a Russian army convoy came under fire in the mountainous south of Chechnya, Interfax reported citing the interior ministry. A sergeant was critically wounded and an operation had been mounted to hunt down those responsible, Interfax said.
Attacks on Russian federal troops and local officials loyal to Moscow remain frequent in the breakaway Caucasus province, despite Moscow declaring victory in a second war to crush the separatist rebellion there.