Suicide bombers seize Chechen parliament

MOSCOW: Militants on Tuesday stormed and seized the parliament building in Russia's troubled region of Chechnya, taking hostages and killing at least two security guards, officials said.

Heavily-armed unspecified number of militants and suicide bombers stormed into the Parliament building in the provincial capital Grozny as speaker Dukuwakha Abdurahmanov was inside the premises, according to RIA Novosti news agency report.

As militants raced into the building after overpowering the guards, a suicide bomber blew himself up on the grounds of the premises near the office of speaker, killing two people and wounding many others.

According to other reports, the militants have also launched simultaneous attacks on other state buildings in a most deadly attack since 2004 Beslan high school hostage crisis.