| Officers of the temporary operational group of the Russian Interior Ministry and criminal police of the Kurchaloyevsky district have thwarted attempts to prepare and stage new acts of terror in Chechnya. On Tuesday, the police uncovered a cache containing 12 jet-propelled projectiles, six mines, more than 16 kilogrammes of TNT, three kilogrammes of plastic explosive, 19 grenades, electric fuses and rechargeable batteries on the outskirts of the Geldygen village, the Interim press centre of the Russian Interior Ministry in the North Caucasian region told Itar-Tass on Wednesday. As a result of operational-search action on the same day police found two Shmel flame-throwers and 16 rounds to grenade launcher cached by the roadside. According to law enforcers, this cache of arms belonged to the clandestine gunmen group of Abubakar Bashuyev who was killed in an armed clash with federal troops in 2002. |