14:17, 27 May 2005
Police casualties mount
An officer of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs was killed in the Gudermes district.
The body of the patrol officer with numerous marks of gunshot and shrapnel wounds was found in Nizhnii Gerzel, Gudermes district, on 26 May, a source with the republican Internal Affairs Ministry told RIA Novosti. The killed man's handgun was stolen.