ON-DON, Russia, August 03, SPA -- An Interior Ministry spokesman says militants in Chechnya have shot dead five police officers and wounded six others in an ambush. Magomed Deniyev of the Russian Interior Ministry's branch in Chechnya says the attack occurred late Sunday in the southern Shatoi region, according to a report of The Associated Press. Deniyev said Monday that six other police officers were wounded when militants fired at their vehicles as they drove through a narrow mountain gorge.
