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Chechen authorities deny hostages taken during militant raid

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The administration chief of a district in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya where militants killed three civilians in a raid denied on Friday reports that hostages were taken.
GROZNY, June 13 (RIA Novosti) - The administration chief of a district in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya where militants killed three civilians in a raid denied on Friday reports that hostages were taken.

A group of around 60 militants attacked the village of Benoi-Vedeno in the Nozhai-Yurt district of eastern Chechnya on Thursday night, burning down five houses. A police source earlier said several people were taken hostage in the raid.

District chief Akhmed Khatatayev said: "No hostages were taken. When the militants left the village, they seized a car together with its owner. After leaving the village, they let the driver out, and set fire to the car."

The police source said that all of those killed were members of a family named Yasayev. The search for the attackers is ongoing.

Sporadic terrorist attacks and militant clashes remain common in Russia's North Caucasus republics, although the active phase of the Kremlin campaign to fight militants and terrorists in Chechnya is officially over. Violence often spills over into neighboring republics, in particular Ingushetia and Daghestan.

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