"All deputies are alive and were taken from the territory of the parliament building to safety," Kadyrov said.
He said the Chechen security forces staged an intense 20-minute operation to kill the militants and free the parliament deputies and employees from the building.
Three security guards and one civilian were killed after militants stormed the parliament building, a spokesman for the interior ministry told AFP.
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Russian news agency reports said that two militants blew themselves up in suicide attacks and another was killed in an exchange of fire.
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