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5/5/2005

Developments in Chechnya

The bodies of three men and one woman were found under a bridge across the Sunzha in Grozny's Leninskii district on 4 May, Grozny resident Ahmad Maashev told Caucasian Knot. Chechnya's Internal Affairs Ministry declined comment saying they had no information about what happened. Sultan Abubakarov, CK correspondent.

Five unknown people in camouflage uniforms armed with automatic weapons entered room no 15 at temporary accommodation point no 118 in Grozny and abducted an unemployed man who lived there at 11.00 pm on 4 May, a source at Chechnya's Internal Affairs Ministry told RIA Novosti today.

Unknown people in camouflage uniforms abducted a police officer of the Grozny District Division of Internal Affairs in Grozny's Leninskii district at about 8.30 am MSK on 4 May, Chechen law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti.

An officer of the Russian Internal Affairs Ministry's interior troops triggered a booby trap in the vicinity of Elistanzhi, Vedeno district, and sustained serious wounds, Chechnya's military commandant's office told Caucasian Knot.

A Russian Defence Ministry contract serviceman was killed by a bomb in Grozny's Zavodskoi district at about 8.20 pm MSK on 4 May according to an informed source at the United Group of Forces in the North Caucasus, RIA Novosti says.

Unknown attackers shot automatic weapons on a joint post of Chechen police officers and servicemen of the Russian Defence Ministry's Zapad ("West") battalion in Grozny's Staropromyslovskii district on 4 May which led to one police officer sustaining a wound, Chechnya's military commandant's office told Caucasian Knot. Sultan Abubakarov, CK correspondent.

Federal forces destroyed two rebel camps and a field hospital in Chechnya's Vedeno district on 4 May. At least 10 rebels were killed in these special operations, an officer at Chechnya's military commandant's office told Caucasian Knot. Sultan Abubakarov, CK correspondent.

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