By Country / Russia
Seven Russian Soldiers Killed In Chechnya
February 09, 2006
A Russian soldier in Chechnya (file photo) (AFP)
Meanwhile, two Russian police officers and five militants died today in a clash with a group of suspected Chechen militants in a southern province near war-ravaged Chechnya.
The AP quotes Roman Shchekotin, a spokesman for the regional branch of Russia's Interior Ministry, as saying that police hunted down five militants in Tukui-Mekteb, a village in the southern Stavropol region about 40 kilometers north of the border with Chechnya.
(AFP, AP)