Russian security forces and police killed two militants and detained a third after the gunmen holed up in a house on the outskirts of the southern city of Nazran, police said today.

Russian troops clashed with rebels in southern Chechnya, killing five, including a Turkish citizen, a federal spokesman said today.

At least 10 people were killed today in a new terrorist attack in Chechnya, just two days after dozens of people died in a truck bombing in the war-ravaged Caucasus republic.