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| Caucasus |
| Chechen transhipment base destroyed |
| 2004-04-07 |
| Russian military have uncovered and destroyed rebels’ transhipment base in a mountain area of the Kurchaloi district of Chechnya. The base belonged to a group of militants under one A. Avdorkhanov. The base comprised a dugout capable to accommodate six people, and an observation post. At the base the military seized a large amount of canned food, sets of combat fatigue, sleeping bags, medicines, dressing material and 150 meters of electric wire, a source at headquarters of the federal forces in the region told Tass on Tuesday. Near the base, the military found a cache with 740 5.45mm cartridges, eight projectiles for a grenade launcher, six projectiles for an anti-tank grenade launcher PG-7, two hand anti-tank grenade launchers RPG-7 and RPG-26, five magazines for a Kalashnikov assault rifle, four hand grenades F-1, three electric detonators, 3.6 kilos of TNT blocks and parts for makeshift bombs. In a separate operation federal police agents detained three members of the Jamaat bandit group, a source at the press service of the Russian Interior Ministry’s department in the North Caucasus told Tass on Tuesday. The detainees are residents of the Grozny district. In March, they gunned down a local resident. Law enforcers are now looking for evidence of the three men’s involvement in other serious crimes. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |