Two federal soldiers wounded in Chechnya

GROZNY. Nov 21(Interfax-AVN) - Chechen militants fired at federal troops and their positions on five occasions in the past 24 hours.

Militants fired assault rifles at a police roadblock near the village of Pobedinskoye and lightly wounded a policeman, the Interior Ministry department in Chechnya told Interfax.

An Interior Ministry serviceman was seriously wounded in a landmine blast when a group of Interior Minsitry troops was conducting an engineering intelligence operation near a highway outside the town of Argun.