Friday, 26 January 2007

THREE VOLGOGRAD REGION POLICEMEN WOUNDED IN CHECHNYA

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Three police officers from the Volgograd region were wounded when their checkpoint outside the Chechen village of Chiri-Yurt on the bank of the Argun River came under fire at around midnight, a spokesman for the Chechen Interior Ministry told Interfax on Friday. The as yet unidentified attackers were armed with under-barrel grenade launchers and automatic weapons, the said. The assailants and policemen traded fire for about ten minutes.
Three police officers from the Volgograd region were wounded when their checkpoint outside the Chechen village of Chiri-Yurt on the bank of the Argun River came under fire at around midnight, a spokesman for the Chechen Interior Ministry told Interfax on Friday. The as yet unidentified attackers were armed with under-barrel grenade launchers and automatic weapons, the said. The assailants and policemen traded fire for about ten minutes. A man tried to detonate a grenade when police officers were searching his house in the village of Endrei in Dagestan\'s Khasavyurt district, a source in law enforcement told Interfax-AVN. The man was killed when policemen opened fire to stop him. A grenade, two 200-gram TNT blocks and 20 books promoting Wahhabism were found in the man\'s house. A man suspected of membership in militant leader Hattab\'s armed group between May and June 1997 was detained in the village of Osman- Yurt, in the Khasavyurt district. A resident of the village of Tsotsy-Yurt turned himself in to police in Chechnya\'s Kurchaloi district, admitting to having been a member of an armed group since October 1999 and participated in attacks against federal troops, the source said. (Interfax)
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