Sunday, July 05, 2009 NAZRAN: Militants ambushed a Chechen police convoy in the neighbouring Russian region of Ingushetia on Saturday, killing 10 officers in one of the deadliest recent attacks in the volatile Caucasus. The convoy of six vehicles came under grenade and machine gun fire at around 0530 GMT as it travelled through along a forest road, security officials said. One vehicle burst into flames. "Forty-five members of the Chechnya police force were returning from a joint special operation when their convoy came under fire. Ten were killed and ten were wounded," an Ingush security source told media. The Chechen police were in Ingushetia to conduct a joint special operation against militants with their Ingush colleagues close to the regional border, the source added.The attack took place in the Sunzhensky district, east of Ingushetia's main city Nazran."We believe the convoy fell into a well-planned ambush. It was fired upon from at least three different points with machine guns and grenade launchers," an official Ingush source told a news agency. In a separate incident on Saturday, Nazran's former police chief Vakha Aushev was wounded when unknown assailants opened fire on his car, the Ingush interior ministry spokesman said, quoted by agency.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in
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