Reports: Shooting erupts in Chechen parliament

Published October 19, 2010

| Associated Press

MOSCOW – Russian news agencies report shooting in the parliament of Russia's volatile Chechnya region.

Interfax is reporting deaths in the parliament complex in the center of the Chechen capital as special forces converge on the scene.

Interfax reports the shooting erupted in the office of the speaker of the Chechen parliament, citing a law enforcement source.

The restive region in the Russian North Caucasus has been battling an Islamist insurgency for years despite the iron rule of its Moscow-backed president, Ramzan Kadyrov.

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