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2005-10-04 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

A notorious Chechen warlord said to have masterminded a terrorist attack that killed 15 people in the village of Znamenskoye in July of this year has been killed in Grozny, the pro-Moscow Chechen government said Monday.

Extremist leader Supyan Arsanukayev of Chechnyaâs Groznensky district was killed in Grozny, the Interfax news agency reported.

âLocal law enforcement agencies launched an operation to detain Arsanukayev after intelligence was received about his whereabouts. Arsanukayev offered armed resistance and was killed in shooting in the town of Ivanovo,â a Chechen Interior Ministry spokesman told Interfax on Monday. Local police forces did not sustain any losses during the operation, the spokesman said.

The dead leader organized the terrorist attack in the village of Znamenskoye in July 2005, which left 15 people dead, among them eleven policemen, two children and a woman, the spokesman added.

The Prosecutor Generalâs Office said earlier that the attack had been masterminded by Chechen separatist leader Shamil Basayev.

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