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| | Gunmen cross from Chechnya, take hostages - Europe - MSNBC.com |
 | | The gunmen attacked a border guard unit on the internal frontier between Chechnya and Dagestan, killing at least three servicemen and wounding 10 others before entering the Tsunti district village of Shauri, said Roman Shchekochikhin, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry branch in southern Russia. |
 | | Shchekochikhin said the attackers seized 30-40 hostages at a school, but Basyr Magomedov, head of the Tsunti district administration, said on state-run Rossiya television that the attackers were holding an unspecified number of hostages in a 50-bed hospital, while a Dagestani emergency official said the attackers had left Shauri, taking three hostages with them. |
 | | According to Muslim Tsupmilov, a spokesman for the Federal Security Service’s border guards agency in Dagestan, nine servicemen were killed in fighting with the gunmen, who officials said crossed the border hours before dawn. |
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