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Two Russian policemen killed in Chechen cafe shooting |
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November 19, 2000
MOSCOW--(AP) - Two Russian policemen were killed and a local resident was wounded when gunmen opened fire in a cafe in the settlement of Goty in southwestern Chechnya, a news agency reported Saturday. The policemen, who were members of an elite prompt-reaction unit from St. Petersburg, were dining Friday night in the cafe when the unidentified gunmen opened fire, a spokesman for the Russian Interior Ministry's department for Chechnya told the ITAR-Tass news agency. It was the third attack on Russian forces in cafes in Chechnya this month, ITAR-Tass said. In the village of Alkhinchu-Borzhoi in the Kurchaloi district east of the capital Grozny, five civilians and two Russian servicemen were shot to death by unidentified gunmen, the Chechen public prosecutor's office told ITAR-Tass on Saturday. The civilians were collecting wood in the hills near Alkhinchu-Borzhoi on Thursday when they were attacked. The gunmen were believed to be members of a local criminal group, the prosecutor's office said. It was not known why the servicemen were in the village, ITAR-Tass said. The leader of a mosque in Gudermes, Chechnya's second largest city, was wounded when his car was attacked by gunmen Friday night, ITAR-Tass said. Imam Famzat Odayev and a relative were attacked by Chechen rebels as he neared his Gudermes home, the news agency said. Russia sent ground forces into Chechnya in September 1999 aiming to reestablish control of the republic that had been effectively independent since a 20-month war ended in 1996 with a Russian withdrawal. The move to retake Chechnya came after Chechen rebels launched two incursions into neighboring Dagestan and after some 300 people died in Russian apartment bombings that officials blamed on the insurgents. |