Some Chechen refugees return from Ingushetia

The first official group of Chechen refugees returned to their republic on 24 April, ITAR-TASS reported. The group had been living in Ingushetia since at least 1999. The Russian State Statistics Committee the same day said that 603,400 people now live in Chechnya, up from 350,000 in late June 1999, the Russian news agency said. And in another statistical report, Russian forensic specialists said that an examination of the bodies of 1,937 Russian servicemen killed in Chechnya found that 47 percent had died from bullet wounds, 38 percent from explosions, and 15 percent from other causes, the news agency said the same day. PG
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