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Police have shot dead four youngsters who launched 3 assaults in and around the Chechen capital Grozny, say officials within the Russian republic.
A fifth teen detonated a bomb he was once wearing in a rucksack, however survived. He had approached a police post in Mesker-Yurt, east of Grozny.
No policemen died. in the earlier decade Chechnya has noticed much jihadist unrest.
The Islamic State workforce says its militants carried out the assaults. The declare has no longer been verified.
The Chechen Data Minister, Dzhambulat Umarov, said the youngest attacker used to be ELEVEN and the oldest 17.
on the outskirts of Grozny a automobile rammed a visitors police checkpoint and a car chase ensued. Police shot the 2 occupants dead during that chase. No civilians were harm in any of the attacks.
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In a put up on Telegram the Chechen chief, Ramzan Kadyrov, condemned the teenagers who, he alleged, had tried to disrupt Muslim Chechens’ celebrations of Eid al-Adha, which begins on Tuesday.
The remaining leading terror assault in Chechnya was in December 2014, while gunmen seized a publishing space and a school in Grozny. In a fierce gun battle 14 Chechen police died besides as 11 of the gunmen. The attack was once claimed by an Islamist group.
The principally Muslim republic was devastated via wars among Russian troops and Chechen separatist rebels, in the duration 1994-2007. Ramzan Kadyrov, fiercely dependable to Russian President Vladimir Putin, has ruthlessly suppressed competition.
