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| 2005-10-12 |
| Four policemen have been killed in Russia's rebel Chechnya and neighbouring Dagestan, a region suffering increasingly from the overspill of separatist violence, local media and police said on Tuesday. News agencies reported that the bodies of two of the policemen were found in Chechnya -- where separatists have fought Russian rule for a decade -- after being kidnapped earlier this year. The agencies said the body of a 19-year-old woman who worked at the local administration was found with one of the police victims near the regional capital, Grozny. In Dagestan, another Muslim region that is growing increasingly unstable under the impact of the violence from Chechnya, gunmen killed two police officers on Monday before fleeing into a road tunnel about 50 km (30 miles) east of Makhachkala, the region's largest city. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |