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Russia Continues Hunt For Militants In Nalchik

18 October 2005 -- Russian security forces are continuing their hunt today for Islamic militants in Nalchik following last week's attacks in the city.

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October 18, 2005

Reports say security forces using tanks sealed off an area of the city and are conducting house-to-house searches. Local television urged city residents not to leave their homes.

One man was reported killed today when he allegedly put up resistance during a document check. Two other men who also resisted managed to escape.

Alleged Islamic extremists on 13 October launched a coordinated series of attacks on police stations and other government buildings in Nalchik, the capital of Russia's southern republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. More than 130 people were reported killed in the attacks and the fighting that followed.

Radical Chechen field commander Shamil Basaev claimed he was behind the attacks.

(AP/Interfax/dpa)

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