| Chechen police detained five members of illegal armed formations in various districts of the republic on Friday. One militant who tried to put up armed resistance was killed. Among the detainees is a resident of Grozny, who is suspected of robbery of a cashier at Grozny’s water supplies plant Grozvodokanal in April 2003. The workers’ wage in the amount of 600,000 roubles was stolen then. One more gunman, who was detained by policemen of the Achkhoi-Martan district, had been on a federal wanted list for participation in acts of terror. He was a member of a gang led by a certain Dzhambulat Khatuyev. The bandits robbed local residents, mined motor roads and opened fire at federal troops’ convoys. Policemen averted acts of terror on the motor road Zamai-Yur - Beti-Mokhk in the republic’s Nozhai-Yurt district and in Saikhanov Street, the Oktyabr district in the Chechen capital. An earlier detained militant from a gang reporting to a certain Kazbek Burkayev told policemen about the location of a cache with a 35-kilo homemade explosive device. Measures to destroy the cache and the explosive device were being taken at the time of reporting. |