From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/14/2005 12:50 AM Five Russian soldiers killed in Chechnya? (updated PM 02:45)
2005/8/14 MOSCOW (AP)
A senior Russian military officer and four other soldiers died Sunday in a clash with rebels in Chechnya, news reports said.
Col. Alexander Kayak, the top officer in Chechnya's southern Urus-Martan region, was killed in combat with rebels in the pre-dawn hours, the Interfax and ITAR-Tass news agencies reported, quoting Chechnya's Moscow-backed administration.
Another four servicemen also were killed and two were wounded in fighting in the village of Roshni-Chu, 23 kilometers (14 miles) southwest of the Chechen capital, Grozny.
Kayak led a group of servicemen who rushed to Roshni-Chu after rebels had attacked the house belonging to the Moscow-backed civilian administrator. The house burned to the ground, but the administrator wasn't hurt, Interfax reported.
Russian troops re-entered Chechnya in 1999 three years after withdrawing at the end of a disastrous 20-month war with separatist forces that left the province de facto independent. Although Russia's army and its local allies control most of the small Caucasus territory, rebels based in mountain hideouts mount regular hit-and-run attacks.
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