Gunmen Attack Parliament in Chechnya

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"Gunmen burst into the Parliament of Chechnya in southern Russia on Tuesday morning, killing several people in a shootout, according to Russian news reports.

Unnamed law enforcement sources speaking to Russian news media said that three or four men entered the building in Grozny and opened fire close to the office of the Parliament’s speaker, Dujuvakha Adurakhmanov. Reports said that Mr. Adurakhmanov was still alive, but that at least four people had been killed.

The gunmen have reportedly begun taking hostages. There were also reports that the Agriculture Ministry was under attack.

Russian forces fought two wars in Chechnya against a fierce separatist movement that has evolved over the last decade into an Islamist insurgency responsible for almost daily attacks against law enforcement and government officials in the region."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/world/europe/20chechen.html?src=twrhp