Shoot-outs and armed clashes taking place in Chechnya every day
By Ruslan Isayev
CHECHNYA – Three Federal Russian Interior Ministry soldiers died today as a result of a shoot-out with an armed group of Chechens in the Novye Aldy suburb of the Chechen capital. One of the attackers was also killed.
On the morning of the day before, the base of the “Zapad” battalion of the Federal Russian Defence Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) came under fire from unknown persons located in the “Turbina” settlement in Grozny's Staropromyslovsky district.
According to a source in the Interior Ministry of the Chechen Republic, as a result one contract soldier died and three were wounded. The attackers made off in a motor car in the direction of the exit from the city.
On Wednesday evening in the town of Argun a 27 year-old resident of the village of Kurchaloy who had joined a guerrilla group blew himself up. The explosion caused varying degrees of injury to four policemen who were trying to seize the guerrilla.
Translated by David McDuff. (MD/T)
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