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| Two militants killed in Chechnya |
| 2010-08-09 |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] Two militants have been killed as they engaged in an exchange of fire with police and military forces in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Chechnya. The militants had been blocked on Sunday morning in an apartment of a nine-storey residential building in the Leninsky district of Chechnya's capital, Grozny. A gunfight broke out after militants refused to heed the demands to surrender, a Chechen Interior Ministry source told ITAR-TASS news agency. The skirmish left one police officer killed and another wounded. There were no reports of civilian casualties. Sporadic terrorist attacks and militant clashes are common in Russia's North Caucasus republics, especially Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia. |
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