Four troops killed in Chechnya attack

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MOSCOW, Oct 8 (AFP): An attack on a convoy in Russia's war-torn province of Chechnya killed a local police chief and three soldiers, and wounded 10 other servicemen, the local Interior Ministry said Monday, ITAR-TASS reported.
"Unidentified assailants opened fire on three police vehicles" travelling on the road between Dargo and Vedeno in the mountainous south of the tiny province, unidentified officials were quoted as saying.
The assailants also wounded two more policemen and eight soldiers, the report said.
Officials said that a guerrilla group had been recently been broken up in the forested highlands around Dargo and that reinforcements were being sent to the region to search for the escaped militants.