Two children died in assault, relatives say

Relatives of Muslim Attayev, leader of the extremist jamaat (group) Yarmuk killed in Nalchik, have filed an application with the Kabardino-Balkarian prosecutor's office to give them the bodies of his two children, a three-year-old boy and six-month-old girl, that are allegedly hided by instructions of the republican interior minister, some sources say. However the ministry and the prosecutor's office flatly deny the fact that children were in the house. There is also information that tenants had taken the children out of the house before the assault began.