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1. 1. www.abtechno.com

   www.abtechno.com/news/octhtm/g - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/4/2007   Last Visited: 12/4/2007

   Rockets exploded about 50 yards from Reuters correspondent Maria Eismont. She said she had counted dozens of dead and wounded at a hospital in the town center. Survivors said rockets had hit Grozny's main market.
   
   "Three rockets hit the central market," Eismont said.
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   Eismont said there were also reports an industrial suburb had been hit.
   
   Chechen spokesman Movladi Udugov told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location that Chechen officials estimated at least 60 people had been killed in the crowded outdoor market and 150 injured.
   
   He said a rocket had also hit a mosque in the city's Kalinin district, killing 13 people as they knelt in prayer. He said Chechen officials believed the rockets were Scud surface-to-surface missiles. This could not be confirmed.
   
   A defense ministry spokesman in Moscow said he could not confirm reports of an attack on Grozny.
   
   Russian troops are occupying high ground 7-10 miles from the capital of Chechnya, on Russia's southern flank.

2. 2. chechen republic online - news related to chechnya

   www.amina.com/news/121799.html - [Cached]

   Last Visited: 7/29/2003

   Maria Eismont, a Reuters correspondent in Grozny, confirmed reports of a rebel attack on an armoured column.
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   Ms Eismont, a Russian national, said she saw "more than 100 Russian soldiers lying dead after their column of tanks and armoured personal carriers was surrounded and attacked". She said 15 tanks and armoured personnel carriers had been destroyed and were burnt out.

3. 3. Russa Blasts Grozny, Parliamentary Vote Ends

   www.ripnet.org/strategies/aler - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/19/1999   Last Visited: 8/11/2001

   Reuters correspondent Maria Eismont , one of a handful of reporters for foreign news organisations still in Grozny , said on Saturday ( Eds : correct ) the mainly elderly civilians who remained were trapped in cellars with little food or firewood.
   
   Residents who escaped at the weekend to the adjacent Russian region of Ingushetia , including the border town of Nazran , said most people were afraid to leave because of heavy bombing.
   
   There are very many people left in Grozny. There is bombing and shelling all the time , and they are scared out of their wits , said Fatimat Habillata , who escaped on Saturday on a bus convoy evacuating 88 elderly and mentally ill people.
   
   But refugees who had made it out and were living in a train in the Ingush town of Sernovodsk were forcibly sent back to Chechnya on Saturday , witnesses and human rights officials said.