Gudermes is the hometown of Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya's powerful Moscow-backed prime minister.
RFE/RL's Russian Service also reports that two Russian servicemen and one Chechen militant were killed today in a separate shooting in Chechnya's mountainous Shatoi region.
(with material from agency reports)
The Chechnya Conflict
The Chechnya Conflict
The aftermath of a December 2002 Chechen resistance attack on the main government building in Grozny (epa)
CHRONOLOGY
The fighting in Chechnya has raged, with short breaks, since 1994. It has brought misery, death, and destruction to the North Caucasus republic and to Russia as a whole. View an annotated timeline of the conflict.
