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14/10/2005
Russian forces move in on Nalchik rebels
Russian forces have moved in on Chechen militants one day after rebels in the city of Nalchik launched attacks on government buildings.
A series of rebel attacks yesterday, were reported to have killed 85 people, and Russian forces subsequently moved in on two buildings, a shop and a police station, where armed rebels were holding hostages.
Russian forces have sealed of the city and Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered that anyone offering resistance be shot.
The capital of Kabardino-Balkaria province in Nalchik has been surrounded by thousands of Russian troops.
Special forces today stormed a police station, and according to reports have freed a number of hostages and killed eight Chechen militants. At a shop where three militants had taken hostages, two women were freed in an operation in which all the rebels were reported to have been killed.
However, there is no consensus on the number of militants who took part in the attacks - estimates range from around 60 to several hundred.
Russian authorities claim that over 60 rebels were killed and at least 17 detained as security forces responded to the attacks and mounted follow-up operations.
It is understood that 12 police personnel were killed and 12 civilians lost their lives as a result of exchanges of gunfire which took place on Thursday following a police raid in a suburb of the city.
Running gun battles broke out on the streets, and in apparent diversionary attacks by rebels, police stations, an airport and government buildings were targeted in a six-hour long battle between Russian forces and rebels.
A group known as the Caucasus Front, which has links with Chechen rebels, has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Nalchik is close to Beslan in adjoining North Ossetia, where Chechen separatists took hundreds of schoolchildren hostage in September 2004.
(SP/KMcA)
A series of rebel attacks yesterday, were reported to have killed 85 people, and Russian forces subsequently moved in on two buildings, a shop and a police station, where armed rebels were holding hostages.
Russian forces have sealed of the city and Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered that anyone offering resistance be shot.
The capital of Kabardino-Balkaria province in Nalchik has been surrounded by thousands of Russian troops.
Special forces today stormed a police station, and according to reports have freed a number of hostages and killed eight Chechen militants. At a shop where three militants had taken hostages, two women were freed in an operation in which all the rebels were reported to have been killed.
However, there is no consensus on the number of militants who took part in the attacks - estimates range from around 60 to several hundred.
Russian authorities claim that over 60 rebels were killed and at least 17 detained as security forces responded to the attacks and mounted follow-up operations.
It is understood that 12 police personnel were killed and 12 civilians lost their lives as a result of exchanges of gunfire which took place on Thursday following a police raid in a suburb of the city.
Running gun battles broke out on the streets, and in apparent diversionary attacks by rebels, police stations, an airport and government buildings were targeted in a six-hour long battle between Russian forces and rebels.
A group known as the Caucasus Front, which has links with Chechen rebels, has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Nalchik is close to Beslan in adjoining North Ossetia, where Chechen separatists took hundreds of schoolchildren hostage in September 2004.
(SP/KMcA)
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