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| 2005-10-02 |
| Suspected rebels opened fire with automatic weapons on a patrol of Russian troops and local police in the region surrounding the Chechen capital Grozny, killing two servicemen and wounding two others, the Interior Ministry said Saturday. Two suspected militants also died in Friday's clash, the ministry's regional branch said. In another armed incident, federal forces on Friday discovered a rebel base in the southeastern mountains with a large weapons cache including grenades and a machine-gun and shot dead a suspected Chechen insurgent, the interior ministry said. Overnight, three troops and one policeman were wounded some 25 kilometres east of Grozny when unknown assailants opened fire on them with grenade-launchers. On the outskirts of a nearby settlement on Friday, a homemade explosive device went off, wounding three Russian soldiers serving as volunteers in Chechnya, a duty officer at the ministry said. Separately, in the restive neighbouring republic of Dagestan, police discovered the body of the head of a deaf-mute association who had been shot dead in his office in the regional capital Makhachkala on Thursday. The murder appeared to be a contract killing linked to the victim's professional activities, said Roman Shchekotin, spokesman for the ministry's southern regional branch. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 Hear no evil, speak no evil. |
| Posted by: john 2005-10-02 07:29 |