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Friday, October 1, 1999 Published at 18:02 GMT 19:02 UK

 World: Europe

In pictures: Chechnya's refugee crisis


Refugee children sit in a bus marked "Grozny" at a checkpoint near Sleptsovskaya.
Chechens cross the border with Ingushetia, carrying few belongings.
Russian police have set up roadblocks to stop suspected Islamic militants slipping across the borders to stage more attacks
At registration offices like this in the Ingush capital, Nazran, refugees line up as they wait to be registered.
A child sleeps in a refugee camp some 30 km (19
miles) east of Nazran...
...while others play with a toy pistol.
Russian Emergency Situations Ministry workers load medical equipment onto a plane. The ministry sends a field hospital for refugees in Ingushetia.

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