MOSCOW. June 17 (Interfax) - Two servicemen from the Russian Interior Forces were injured in a special operation in Chechnya and have been hospitalized.
Security forces spotted a group of unidentified people in a forest four kilometers away from the community of Serzhen-Yurt in the Shali district, who put up armed resistance, a law enforcement source told Interfax on Thursday.
Two Interior Forces contract soldiers were wounded and hospitalized. One of the gunmen was killed by return fire.
It was reported earlier that the body of a man was found at the scene. "He has been identified as Artur Dudurkayev, a resident of the village of Tolstoy-Yurt," Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said.
Intelligence information indicates that the militants suffered more losses, and a search for their bodies is under way.