Renewed fighting in North Caucasus kills 24

At least 24 people have been killed during five days of fighting on the border between Chechnya and Dagestan in Russia's North Caucasus.<br /><br />Officials say 17 police and seven insurgents were killed.<br /><br />Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader Ramzan Kadyrov says government forces were ambushed in the Kazbek region.<br />http://www.euronews.net/