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Chechnya police: 2 Russian servicemen killed, 5 injured in separate bomb attacks
Police in Chechnya say two Russian servicemen have been killed and five others wounded in three separate bomb blasts in the war-scarred province.
- AP
- Published: 12:26 July 3, 2009
Moscow: Police in Chechnya say two Russian servicemen have been killed and five others wounded in three separate bomb blasts in the war-scarred province.
The provincial Interior Ministry said the makeshift-bomb blasts occurred late Thursday and early Friday in the Urus-Martan district, southwest of the capital, Grozny.
Chechnya and surrounding provinces in Russia's North Caucasus region are beset by daily shootings, bombings and other violence that's persisting after two wars between Chechen rebels and government forces.
Authorities said nobody was hurt by a grenade that exploded early Friday in the yard of a high-level police official's home in Ingushetia, adjacent to Chechnya. Two gunmen were detained after a shootout overnight with police in the Kabardino-Balkaria province, further west.
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