17:54, 14 May 2004
3 youths abducted in Chechnya
Three young men have been abducted in the village of Dyshne-Vedeno, Chechnya's Vedeno district.
Two schoolboys, 10th and 11th form students, and a 19-year-old youth were abducted in the morning of May 12, but it has become known only today.
Three cars drove to the house of local residents, witnesses report. People in camouflage uniform took the boys in an unknown direction.
Vedeno district police are searching for the young men.
Source: ITAR-TASS News Agency