Chechen rebels said Tuesday they had killed four Russian soldiers as the chief pro-Moscow administrator in Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov, said he had survived another attempt on his life.
A spokesman for the rebel Chechen presidency told AFP at Sleptsovsk, a town in Ingushetia near the border with Chechnya, that separatists had also wounded 11 Russians in various attacks over the previous 24 hours.
Russian officials have announced no casualties among their forces.
Meanwhile Taus Jabrailov, Kadyrov's spokesman, said the pro-Russian official had narrowly escaped being blown up when a bomb exploded on a road near Gudermes as his convoy was passing by late Monday.
Several bodyguards were hurt by broken glass but there were no casualties, the spokesman said, adding that Kadyrov believed rebel president Aslan Maskhadov to be behind the attack -- SLEPTSOVSK, Russia (AFP)
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