When the darkness came on the night of December 4th, Islamist militants attacked the capital of Chechnya-Grozny. They seized a publishing house and later moved to an empty school. At least 10 policemen were killed, about 28 were injured during a long shootout.
Violence started Thursday morning, when gunmen in three cars attacked a police checkpoint. Caucasus Emirate (Imarat Kavkaz) claimed responsibility for the attack. According to an unknown man in the YouTube video, militants came to the city on a suicide mission, as a revenge for constant oppression on Muslim women in the Republic.
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Source: The Huffington Post
