<DIV><SPAN class=date4>Jul 1 2004 12:59PM</SPAN>
<P class=text>Case opened on accidental killing of family in Chechnya</P>
<P class=text>GROZNY. July 1 (Interfax) - The prosecution service of the Combined Federal Forces in the North Caucasus has initiated a criminal case on the tragic death of a family in the village of Serzhen-Yurt in Chechnya's Shali district, Military Prosecutor Alexander Mokritsky said on Chechen television. </P>
<P class=text>On the morning of June 26, artillery shelled a place where an illegal armed formation had reportedly been spotted, Mokritsky said. A house in Serzhen-Yurt was accidentally hit during the bombardment, Mokritsky said. </P>
<P class=text>The gun crew that hit the house has been identified, he said. </P>
<P class=text>The Shali district administration told journalists earlier that the family had returned home from Ingushetia, where they had been living as refugees, only one day before the incident. </P></DIV><p>
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