VLADIKAVKAZ, Dec 6: Two Russian soldiers were killed on Sunday and seven others injured in a new wave of rebel attacks in Chechnya that included the kidnappings of two pro-Russian Chechen policemen, military sources said here on Monday.

The two soldiers were killed in the mountains of southern Chechnya where most of the rebels are based while similar attacks struck the capital Grozny, where the pro-Russian policemen were kidnapped, the sources said.

One of the policemen was abducted from his home and another grabbed out of his car while he was on patrol on the war-ravaged capital. Reports said that three men were also found dead in Grozny over the weekend. -AFP