GROZNY, May 25: Two Russian interior ministry soldiers, including an officer, and two Chechen police officers were killed in the past 24 hours in Chechnya, officials said on Tuesday.
Six others were wounded in the series of rebel attacks in the Russian republic, the Chechen interior ministry said. An explosive device blew up late Monday, not far from the capital Grozny, under an armoured personnel carrier transporting Russian OMON special forces into the city, the ministry spokesman said.
"Two of them died, including an officer," and two others were hospitalised with wounds, he said. -APP