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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Basayev minion jugged
2005-01-04
A guerrilla who was on the wanted list for his involvement in a terrorist attack in Chechnya's Vedeno district has been detained, sources in the federal forces in the North Caucasus told Interfax on Tuesday. The militant, who is a resident of the Vedeno district's village of Dyshne-Vedeno, was identified as a member of separatist leader Shamil Basayev's group. The guerrilla is reported to have been involved in planting a landmine on Lenin Street in Dyshne-Vedeno. Several federal servicemen were injured when the bomb exploded. A search for the group's other members is underway.

In a separate development, six people went missing in Chechnya over the past 24 hours, sources in the republican Interior Ministry told Interfax on Tuesday. Five of them were abducted by unidentified gunmen, law enforcement sources said. A group of gunmen entered the apartments of Oil Institute student Said-Akhmed Makayev and teacher training school student Timur Tsakayev in Grozny's Leninsky district, kidnapping the two men and seizing a VAZ- 2106 car, the Interior Ministry sources said. Daud Magomadov was abducted in Grozny's Oktyabrsky district, while locomotive engineer Adam Magomedov was kidnapped in the town of Argun. Shamsudin Vitigov, a United Russia party member, went missing at Grozny's central market under unclear circumstances. A search operation is in progress.
Posted by:Dan Darling

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