The attack took place when some 20 Masked assailants in three cars blocked the minivan on a highway linking the **rth Caucasus regions of Chechnya and Ingushetia, said Igor Kalyapin, chairman of the Committee for Prevention of Torture and a member of the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council.
Timur Rakhmatulin, the NGO's regional leader, told The Associated Press that two of the journalists and the bus driver were hospitalized, but their conditions weren't immediately k**wn. Read more...