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| 2006-01-19 |
| Federal troops clashed with armed militants in a southern region of Chechnya, killing at least two fighters, regional law enforcement said Wednesday. The clash on Tuesday between the fighters and the special Defense Ministry security force, called Vostok, took place near the village of Nozhai-Yurt, 40 miles southeast of the capital Grozny, a statement from Chechnya's Interior Ministry said. Troops recovered two bodies armed with automatic weapons and other weaponry, while the remaining fighters fled into the nearby forest, the ministry said. In Dagestan, which borders Chechnya to the west, police on Tuesday detained a fighter wanted on suspicion of training armed militants in Chechnya. Regional Interior Ministry spokeswoman Angela Martirosova said Valid Umayev also was wanted for allegedly participating in terror attacks in the two regions. On Wednesday, police detained a man returning to Dagestan from the annual hajj religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, said Akhmed Magomayev, an Interior Ministry official in Dagestan. The detained man, a municipal administrator identified as Aburakhman Gadzhiyev, was arrested at the airport and detained for alleged murder and illegal weapons possession, Magomayev said. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |