Three interior servicemen were killed in Chechnya as result of gunfire

Three soldiers of the 49th detached brigade of the Russian interior troops were killed in Chechnya's Achkhoy-Martan region on Friday, a source in the staff of the Interior Ministry's temporary group in the Northern Caucasus reported.

The servicemen were guarding a railway near the village of Sernovodsk. The gunfire attack was launched from the railway tracks. The federal troops retaliated.

A search is underway in the area.