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Chechnya, (Russia) March 24, 2017 (Reuters/NAN) The National Guard of Russia (NGR) said on Friday that six of its soldiers had been killed while repelling a militant assault on a military facility in Chechnya.
It said in a statement that a group of what it called “armed bandits” had launched an attack under the cover of fog in the early hours of Friday morning on an unnamed military facility.
NGR which said that the repel was successful, said that a gun battle had ensued adding that a number of Russian troops had been wounded in addition to the six killed.
It further said six of the attackers were also killed.
Moscow has fought two wars with separatists in the mainly Muslim internal republic since the 1991 Soviet collapse, but such shoot-outs have become relatively rare in Chechnya.
The wider North Caucasus region remains volatile, however, with unemployment and corruption pushing some young men to embrace radical Islam. (Reuters/NAN)
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Edited by Dada Ahmed