Two Russian officers killed in Chechnya attack

inanna

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Sun Aug-24-08 01:13 AM
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Two Russian officers killed in Chechnya attack

Source: Reuters

MOSCOW, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Two senior Russian officers were killed when their armoured vehicle was hit by explosives in Russia's restive Chechnya on Sunday, Interfax news agency reported, two days after a gun attack in a nearby province.

Russian security officials have said they expected a rise in rebel attacks after Russia launched a military incursion into Georgia, an ex-Soviet republic neighbouring Chechnya, to crush its attempt to retake the breakaway region of South Ossetia.

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jeff30997

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Sun Aug-24-08 01:20 AM
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1. I'm sad for their families.

What a sick world we live in. :(

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