From Reuters:
MOSCOW – Around 15 people were killed and another 20 injured on Tuesday when an armoured police carrier was blown up by rebels in Russia’s Chechnya, officials said.
Itar-Tass news agency quoted local Prime Minister Sergei Abramov as saying the dead included 11 policeman and three civilians. A member of the FSB state security service also died…
Moscow has been trying for years to crush a separatist insurgency in mainly Muslim Chechnya. It has most of the region under control, but police and troops still die daily, mainly in Grozny or the remote mountain villages…
“Today a terrorist act was committed … and as a result people have been killed, people have been injured and people have been seriously injured,” said pro-Moscow President Alu Alkhanov in a televised statement.
“Overall, more than 35 people have been harmed. They have been given first aid, and sent to the nearest hospitals.”
A Chechen rebel Web site said fighters had fired at the vehicle to attract police, then detonated an explosion to kill them…