Scores of people were reported to have been killed in an explosion that destroyed a Russian military hospital near Chechnya today.

A WOMAN suicide bomber ambushed a bus carrying Russian air force pilots near rebel Chechnya yesterday, blowing it up and killing herself and at least 17 others, government officials said.

A female suicide bomber blew up a bus carrying air force personnel today near Russia’s border with Chechnya, killing at least 15 people and injuring many more.

A bus carrying air force personnel exploded today in southern Russia, near Chechnya, killing at least 13 people.

At least 114 servicemen were killed when the world’s biggest helicopter, probably carrying almost double its permitted load, crashed outside a Russian base in Chechnya, state television reported today.

Ninety-nine Russian servicemen were killed and 33 injured yesterday when a huge Mi-26 troop transport helicopter fell onto a Chechen minefield.