 A soldier, three policemen and one insurgent died fighting in Chechnya over the last 24 hours, an official with the pro-Russian local government said Tuesday. A clash in the mountainous Vedeno district left one locally recruited pro-Russian soldier and one rebel dead and two more pro-Russian soldiers wounded, the official, who asked not to be named, told AFP. Two locally recruited policemen died in the Urus Martan area when their vehicle hit a landmine, the source said. In the devastated capital Grozny one policeman was killed in an explosion while inspecting a residence. Six Russian regular soldiers were wounded in fighting, that included Russian artillery strikes in the mountainous Itum-Kale and Nozhai-Yurt areas. Two schoolchildren were wounded by a landmine outside Grozny. |