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One policeman killed, another kidnapped in Chechnya

By Lecha Sadayev

CHECHNYA - The body of a Chechen police officer was found on Minutka Square in Grozny on September 22 with gunshot wounds to the head and body.

According to an Interior Ministry source, an operation entitled “Interception” has been introduced, which involves strengthening police checkpoints, and tightening controls on vehicles. However, the source added, this has not helped to catch the perpetrators.

On Sept. 22, armed masked men entered the house of a policeman in the village of Rubezhnoye in the Groznensky district, and forcibly took him away. A search was immediately begun, but so far it has not produced any results.

(MG/E,T)