Conscript killed as mine blasts in Grozny district of Chechnya

MOSCOW. July 22 (Interfax-AVN) - A Defense Ministry conscript was killed during engineering reconnaissance near the village of Dachu-Borzoi of the Grozny district of Chechnya in the blast of a mine, a spokesman for the Chechen law enforcement told Interfax-Military News Agency over the telephone.

"The serviceman was taken to hospital, where he died of the wounds," he said.