The Russian Interior Ministry says today's fighting claimed the lives of at least another two armed militants.
Chechnya's pro-independence Kavkaz Center information website says the separatist military leadership could not immediately confirm the Russian claims.
(RIA Novosti, Interfax, ITAR-TASS, Kavkaz-Center)
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