Saturday, 17 September 2005

TWO POLICEMEN KILLED IN GROZNY

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By empty (9/17/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Two policemen from the Russian internal republic of Chuvashia, including the deputy commander of a combined police unit from that region, were killed in the Leninsky district of Chechnya\'s capital of Grozny. \"A group of armed men fired automatic weapons at an UAZ jeep on Sadovaya Street. The car\'s driver and deputy commander of the Chuvash police unit Maj.
Two policemen from the Russian internal republic of Chuvashia, including the deputy commander of a combined police unit from that region, were killed in the Leninsky district of Chechnya\'s capital of Grozny. \"A group of armed men fired automatic weapons at an UAZ jeep on Sadovaya Street. The car\'s driver and deputy commander of the Chuvash police unit Maj. Valery Sidorov died of wounds on the spot. Four other policemen who were in the car have been hospitalized with wounds of varying degrees,\" local police told Interfax on Saturday. Similar attacks against both federal forces and local law enforcement officers have happened before at the same place in Grozny, the Interfax source said. (Interfax)
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