ON-DON, Russia, Sept 21, SPA -- Five policemen were killed by gunmen in Chechnya on Thursday, and another five officers were wounded in a neighboring southern province when rebels fired at them during a security sweep, officials said. In a bold daylight attack in Chechnya's provincial capital, Grozny, several gunmen who gathered at a bus stop sprayed a passing police vehicle with automatic gunfire, said Magomed Deniyev, a spokesman for the Chechen branch of Russia's Interior Ministry. All five officers in the car died on the spot from multiple gunshot wounds, and the attackers fled, he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press. In Ingushetia, the province west of Chechnya, five policemen were wounded when unidentified assailants fired grenades at the searching house in the town of Malgobek, said Nazir Yevloyev, a spokesman for the Rusian Interior Ministry's regional division. The officers were hospitalized with shrapnel wounds, he said, adding that the assailants fled.
