YEREVAN Jan. 9, (NT -AFP) - Chechen guerrillas who took hundreds of civilians hostage will soon start executing their captives if their demand for Russian troops to withdraw from Chechnya is not met, ITAR-TASS news agency reported. Dagestani health minister Ibragim Ibragimov said the Chechen guerrillas seized at least 1,000 civilian hostages in their dawn raid on Kizlyar, which lies near Dagestan's border with Chechnya. But Interfax news agency reported that guerrilla chief Salman Raduyev, a son-in-law of Chechen independence leader Dzhokhar Dudayev, told local police that his 600 fighters were holding 3,000 hostages. lp/ccr AFP /AA1234/091205 GMT JAN 96

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