Car bomb attack in Chechnya 'targeted Russian general'
AFP Photo A screen grab from the Russian NTV channel shows a Russian special forces soldier taking position at the area of special operation in the Leninsky district in Grozny, the Chechen capital. Six people were hurt when a car bomb exploded near Grozny as a jeep belonging to a senior Russian military officer was driving past, local officials said.
VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia (AFP) - Six people were hurt when a car bomb exploded near the Chechen capital Grozny as a jeep belonging to a senior Russian military officer was driving past, local officials said.
The target appears to have been Major General Said-Selim Tsuev who was not in the jeep at the time.
The incident took place Saturday near a Russian military base at Khankala.
"A Zhiguli (car) exploded 200 metres from a control post as the jeep was passing after leaving Khankala," a local official said.
"It was probably an attack against me," said Tsuev, quoted by the ITAR-TASS news agency.
"My driver and a guard were wounded by the explosion.
They were badly hurt." Elsewhere in Chechnya three soldiers in the pro-Moscow forces were wounded in a 24 hour period after their positions came under fire, pro-Russian sources said.
Four more were hurt when a military truck was attacked in the Itum-Kale region in southern Chechnya.
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