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3 people, including small child, killed in Chechnya
The Associated PressPublished: August 5, 2007
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia: A group of militants raided a village in Chechnya, killing three local residents, including a 3-year-old boy, and burning houses belonging to police officers, officials said Sunday.

About 10 gunmen descended on the village of Tsa-Vedeno in the southern Vedeno region late Saturday. They fired at a vehicle on the outskirts of the village and killed its three passengers, including the child, Chechnya's branch of Russia's Interior Ministry said in a statement.

The attackers also burned three houses belonging to officers of Moscow-controlled local police, but residents escaped unhurt, it said.

Authorities have begun a hunt for the militants, who they believed were led by a local resident, Russia's NTV television reported.

Large-scale battles in Chechnya, in Russia's volatile North Caucasus, ended years ago, but rebels continue to mount regular raids at federal troops and local Moscow-backed authorities.

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During a security sweep late Saturday in the southeastern Achkhoi-Martan region, police killed two rebels, the Chechen branch of Russia's Interior Ministry said.

Violence often has spilled from Chechnya into neighboring Russian regions.

In the province of Dagestan, unidentified gunmen on Sunday shot and killed a police officer, the regional police said.