Russian military kills Chechen separatist leader
MOSCOW (Kansas City Star) -- Aslan Maskhadov, leader of Chechnya's decade-long separatist conflict against Russian rule, was killed Tuesday as Russian commandos closed in on his bunker near the breakaway republic's capital, Russian and pro-Moscow Chechen authorities said.
Russian television showed images of Maskhadov's shirtless body splayed out on a concrete floor, his head in a pool of blood. How he died remained unclear. Kremlin-backed Chechen leaders said that in the midst of a clash between Russian special forces and Maskhadov's men in the village of Tolstoi-Yurt, a bodyguard standing next to Maskhadov accidentally shot and killed the rebel leader.
"We intended to take him alive," Chechen Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov told the Russian news agency, Interfax. But the Russian military said Maskhadov was killed when soldiers blew up the bunker.
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Russian television showed images of Maskhadov's shirtless body splayed out on a concrete floor, his head in a pool of blood. How he died remained unclear. Kremlin-backed Chechen leaders said that in the midst of a clash between Russian special forces and Maskhadov's men in the village of Tolstoi-Yurt, a bodyguard standing next to Maskhadov accidentally shot and killed the rebel leader.
"We intended to take him alive," Chechen Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov told the Russian news agency, Interfax. But the Russian military said Maskhadov was killed when soldiers blew up the bunker.
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