on-Don, February 05, 2010, SPA -- Officials said five Russian troops have been killed in a clash with militants in Chechnya. The fight broke out late Thursday outside Shalazhi, a village in the foothills of the southern Chechnya mountains where rebels are sheltered, AP quoted a spokesman for the Interior Ministry's Chechen division, Magomed Deniev, as saying today. He said that five ministry troops were killed and six others wounded.
