Two Chechen policemen killed in GroznyRuslan Isayev, North Caucasus - Two members of the Chechen police were shot dead and one injured in Grozny on Monday.
The incident took place when unknown attackers ambushed a police patrol driving a UAZ vehicle at Pervaya Sadovaya Street in the Leninsky district. Then the attackers seized the policemen's weapons.
On the same day, two Chechen guerrillas were killed and two Russian soldiers wounded in a shoot-out in the district town of Shali, southeast of Grozny.
In the village of Avtury in the Shali district, a 46-year-old local resident was found dead in the yard of his house on Monday morning. According to a source from the Interior Ministry of the Chechen Republic, the victim had died of bullet wounds caused probably by fire that came from a Russian military convoy passing by his house. (T)
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