Interfax - ABOUT SIXTY GUERRILLAS WERE INVOLVED IN ATTACK ON NALCHIK - PRELIMINARY FINDINGS
20 died and 40 wounded in Naltchik
MOSCOW - At least 20 people died and 40 others were wounded in the launched attacks Thursday by men armed against buildings with the police force with Naltchik, announced a person in charge for the hospital of this city of the Russian Caucasus to the radio independent Echo of Moscow.
The person in charge added that among these deaths apparently two of the attackers were.
Men-at-arms -- an about sixty according to an anonymous person in charge for the ministry for the regional Interior quoted by the Itar-Tass agency -- conducted Thursday several simultaneous attacks, aiming police stations and other buildings of the police force at Naltchik, capital of the Russian Caucasian republic of Kabardino-Balkarie, near of Chetchnia.
An attack counters the airport of Naltchik has for its part pushed back, added a source to the local staff, quoted by the Interfax agency.
The situation was in the process of standardization in middle of day, affirmed the local ministry of the Interior, but of the fixings continued to burst by places in the city, whose center was encircled by the police force.