Checen leader Sadulayev killed

Police in Chechnya killed rebel leader Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev during a special operation today, authorities said.

Sadulayev was killed in a special operation conducted by the regional police force in his hometown of Argun, the press service of Moscow-backed Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov said. The city is about nine miles east of the provincial capital, Grozny.