Two Russian soldiers were killed and three more severely wounded when their truck hit a remote controlled mine in Chechnya today, Interfax news agency reported.
The agency said the attack, on the main highway in the southern part of the rebel region, occured about an hour before a car bomb attack on another troop truck in the capital Grozny, which killed three people and severely wounded six.
Earlier a car bomb exploded in the Chechen capital Grozny , killing three people and severely wounding six, Russia's NTV television reported.
NTV showed pictures of the flaming wreckage of a car on a Grozny square.