Chechnya - Soldiers remove bodies from streets

T/I 11:30:47 GS 10:33:50
With a fragile peace holding in war-torn Grozny, Russian soldiers on Thursday (12/09) began an important but unpleasant task -- the removal of bodies from the streets.
The Chechen capital is littered with bodies and the shallow graves of those killed during the Chechen offensive in August during which rebel Chechens took control of Grozny.
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GROZNY, CHECHNYA, 12/9

0.00 WS city street in Grozny with people walking;
0.05 MS boy sitting in the ruins of a house;
0.07 MS car with Chechen flag passing;
0.10 WS Russian soldiers digging for bodies;
0.13 MS digging;
0.17 MS boy covering his nose because of the smell;
0.20 MS soldiers trying to extract a coffin from a grave;
0.25 CU protective rubber boots;
0.28 MS soldiers putting coffin on a truck;
0.31 SOT Russian military officer Sergei Kondratyuk, (in Russian): "We have to take all the bodies we find out of the city, because the sanitary situation here leaves much to be desired.";
0.39 MS soldier unwrapping a body from body bag;
0.44 MS soldiers trying to pull a coffin out of grave by a rope, which breaks;
0.50 WS soldiers boarding a truck;
0.55 MS Chechen fighters talking to civilians;
0.59 MS Chechen boy plays with rifle while Russian soldier looks distraught;

1.08 VISION ENDS
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