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Moscow, Nov 11 (AFP) Russian security forces killed five rebels in a special operation near the Chechen capital Grozny today, the Caucasus republic's interior ministry said, quoted by RIA Novosti news agency. The five were killed near the village of Serjen-Yurt, about 30 kilometers (19 miles) east of the republic's capital, said a ministry official quoted by RIA Novosti. Four of the bodies have been identified and two were on a Russian wanted list, the official said. There has been mounting violence throughout Russia's largely Muslim Northern Caucasus in recent months as Islamist militants wage an insurgency against the Moscow-backed local authorities. Chechnya saw two separatist wars after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. |
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