Moscow says an anti-terrorist operation is ongoing in the Chechen capital Grozny following an assault by an unknown number of gunmen in the early hours of this morning. <br /><br /> At least seven attackers have been killed along with six police officers according to Russia’s Tass agency. <br /><br /> The attack began when a police patrol car was ambushed and the attackers stormed a building housing local media. They were then surrounded by security forces.<br /><br /> Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov used social media to say the “terrorists were annihilated”, and was quoted as saying several others were barricaded into a school in the city centre. He said in a radio interview clearing them out would take “15 minutes”.<br /><br /> Grozny was recently <br />rebuiltrebuilt after lying in ruins for years following separatist wars with Russia in the 1990s. Europe’s largest mosque, a copy of Istanbul’s Blue Mosque, is its centrepiece, but Grozny was hit by a suicide bomber in October who killed five policemen and injured 12 others when stopped and asked for his ID.
