Russia: June 24, 2001

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Russian troops in Chechnya killed a major rebel leader (Arbi Barayev) and ten of his followers during a search operation outside Grozny. A rebel press release denies this and says the dead were civilians. The soldiers also arrested over a hundred civilians in the village. Meanwhile, in the south of the province, an eleven pound bomb went off in an administrative building. There were no injuries. 

 

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