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/ 8 February 2006

Blast kills 12 of elite Russian unit in Chechnya

At least 12 people were killed and more than 20 injured when a blast ripped through a barracks for elite troops in Chechnya, Russian military and local emergency ministry officials said early on Wednesday. The explosion late on Tuesday collapsed the two-storey barracks of the Vostok Battalion in Kurchaloi in the east of the war-torn province.