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Russian troops in the Chechen capital of Grozny
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MOSCOW,
November 16 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - A Russian general was
killed in an ambush by Chechen fighters in the capital Grozny, news
agencies quoted military and police sources as saying Saturday.
General
Igor Shifrin, commander of the Russian army's special construction
unit, Glavspetzstroi, was killed in an ambush while traveling Friday
in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny.
Guarded by soldiers from Russia's FSB security service, Shifrin's
two-car convoy came under intense fire from automatic weapons and the
general died from wounds sustained in the attack, although his escorts
escaped unscathed, ITAR-TASS reported.
Eight Chechen fighters have died in clashes with Russian troops in the
past day, according to reports.
A civilian was killed and five others injured in a separate incident
when their vehicle ran over a mine in the northeastern Shelkovsky
region, Russian news agency, Interfax, quoted the federal
forces's northern Caucasus headquarters.
On November 3, nine people were killed when Chechen fighters shot down
a Russian helicopter near the capital of the breakaway republic
according to a Russian military commander.
The
MI-8 helicopter was struck by a ground-to-air missile fired from a
building near Grozny, said Boris Podoprigora, deputy commander of
Russian forces in Chechnya, the Interfax news agency reported.
News
of the attack came shortly after Russian Defense Minister Sergei
Ivanov said he ordered a halt to a planned army withdrawal from the
Chechen republic in response to last month's Moscow hostage crisis in
which 119 civilians died.
That
attack came a few days after Chechen fighters downed a Russian
helicopter near Grozny, on October 29, killing four people.
Chechen
fighters last August shot down a Russian MI-26 military helicopter
near the Russian headquarters in Chechnya. A total of 121 people died
in the crash.
The
Russian military has an estimated 80,000 troops in and around the
North Caucasus republic, where Moscow launched a self-declared
"anti-terrorism" operation against Chechen independence
seekers three years ago.
Russian
tanks rolled back into Chechnya in October 1999 following a bloody war
from 1994 to 1996 and have been there ever since, with almost daily
casualties on both the Russian and Chechen sides.
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