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The deadline to ( is Thursday, June 24 for the September 23 rin Assailants seize Interior Ministry buildi| * police offices in region adjacent to Chech By Yuri Bagrov THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Interior Ministry building seized in Nazran INGUSHETIA VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia — Assailants armed with grenade- and rocket-launchers seized the Interior Ministry headquarters in Ingushetia, a Russian region bordering warring Chechnya, killing the acting minister, a ministry official said Tuesday. Attacks were also reported elsewhere in Ingushetia. The Interior Ministry official said it was not immediately clear who the attackers were, but said some of them were shouting “Allahu akhbar" — a frequent cry of Chechnya’s separatist rebels as their insurgency increasingly comes under the influence of radi cal Islam. Fighting from the 4-year-old Chechen war has occasionally spilled into Ingushetia, highlighting the Russian military’s ineffective ness against the rebels despite hav ing heavier weapons and far superi or manpower. On Monday, the newspaper Kommersant quoted Chechnya’s sep aratist president Aslan Maskhadov as saying that rebels were preparing to undertake new tactics. Attacks in Russia Tho Interior Ministry headquarters in Nazran. Russia, was seized by armed assailants. Attacks and shooting were also reported in other cities neighboring Chechnya. T Qn Cor GEORGIA 0 80 mt 6 50 *• UKRAINE BUu * m ./ -V,, SOURCE ESRI ers seized police buildind Ordzhonikidzevskaya, just over the border| Chechnya, and in Karabulak. Acting Ingush interior minister All Koshtoyev was wounded in the first minutesg fighting in Na/ran and was taken to Vlafflg in neighboring North Ossetia, where hedi^ ministry official said. The' IT AR l ass news reported that the building oftl tier guard service in Nazratn Interior Ministry warehouse^ city were on fire. Heavy shooting was alsoti ed m Makhachkala, the cfi| Dagestan, which Chechnya to the east, thel news agency said, citing ano of the local office of the FJ Security Service. However,s ing is common in Dagestan,■ was nm immediatelycleari| there was any connection! attacks in Ingushetia. The last major rebel incJ into Ingushetia was in Och 2002. when a band ofli£)ver600 attacked Russian forces well gather at the republic near the villaifuesday f Gaslashki, killing 17 servicew CHECHNYA Makhachkala Grozny Ordzhonikidzevskaya □ 250 km The attack on the ministry building in the city of Nazran began late Monday, the official said on condition of anonymity. He later said other attack- On Monday, an official in the Moscow-b Chechen administration said that six Russial diers had been killed in rebel attacks sions over the past day. We’re on Fire! 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