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Ambush In Ingushetia Leaves One Dead

August 16, 2006

The wreckage of a car in which Ingushetia's deputy interior minister, Dzhabrail Kostoyev, was killed in May (epa)

The wreckage of a car in which Ingushetia's deputy interior minister, Dzhabrail Kostoyev, was killed in May (epa)

August 16, 2006 -- One Russian soldier was killed when unidentified gunmen opened fire at a military convoy carrying soldiers in Nazran, the capital of the Russian republic of Ingushetia.


Two others were injured in the attack.


The convoy was heading for Vladikavkaz, in North Ossetia.


(Interfax)

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