An Interior Ministry spokesman said troops are pursuing the militants, who fled the site of the attack.
Chechnya has been plagued by separatist violence for most of the past 12 years.
(AP, AFP)
The Chechnya Conflict
The Chechnya Conflict
The aftermath of a December 2002 Chechen resistance attack on the main government building in Grozny (epa)
CHRONOLOGY
The fighting in Chechnya has raged, with short breaks, since 1994. It has brought misery, death, and destruction to the North Caucasus republic and to Russia as a whole. View an annotated timeline of the conflict.
