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Gas pipeline blown up in Chechnya

Friday 23 February 1996 00:02 GMT
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Gas pipeline blown up in Chechnya

Moscow - A pipeline carrying gas between the southern Russian region of Dagestan and rebel Chechnya was blown up by unidentified people. Tass quoted Abdul Bugayev, first deputy prime minister in the pro-Moscow Chechnya government, as saying the explosion took place near Sholkovskaya in central Chechnya. Reuter

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