星期二在俄罗斯南部,几名枪手冲入该地区的议会大楼,在光天化日之下发动袭击,打死至少3人,打伤17人。

当局说,2名警察和1名政府工作人员在车臣首府格罗兹尼发生的袭击事件中丧生。莫斯科和车臣总统发表的声明说,其中两名袭击者把他们自己炸死,另外两个人是被对这起袭击做出反应的安全部队打死的。

车臣总统卡德罗夫在一份声明中说,议会大楼里的其他人在持续了20分钟的安全行动中获得了自由。

俄罗斯国际新闻通讯社把星期二的袭击称作是克里姆林宫遭受的“重大挫折”。克里姆林宫宣称给车臣这个问题重重的共和国带来了稳定。

俄罗斯同车臣的穆斯林分离分子在过去20年的时间里打了两场战争。

Gunmen in southern Russia stormed a regional parliament Tuesday, in a brazen daylight attack that killed at least three people and wounded 17 others.

Authorities say two police officers and a government worker were killed in the attack in the Chechen capital, Grozny. Statements from Moscow and the regional presidency said two of the attackers blew themselves up and two others were killed by security forces responding to the attack.

A statement from Chechen President Kadyrov said the remaining people inside the building had been freed in a 20-minute security operation.

Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency described Tuesday’s attack as a “major setback” for the Kremlin, which has claimed to have brought stability to the troubled republic.

Russia has fought two wars in the past two decades against Muslim separatists in Chechnya.