MAKHACHKALA, March 1, 2004. (RIA Novosti) -- The body of liquidated Chechen warlord Ruslan Gelayev was taken to Makhachkala and identified by formerly arrested militants, the Makhachkala territorial unit of the North Caucasus regional department of the Russian Federal Security Service told RIA Novosti. (Daghestan is Chechnya's neighboring republic].
According to the Russian united staff for the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus, Gelayev, one of Chechen warlords, was killed by Russian border guards in Daghestan on Saturday.
