The gunmen, killed in Nalchik on Sunday, were members of armed gangs, subordinated to Basayev and Maskhadov, Russian Deputy Interior Minister Arkady Yedelev told reporters on Sunday. According to deputy minister, they are members of the Karachayevo-Cherkess jamaat and were on the federal Wanted List for committing terror acts in the Rostov Region and Stavropol Territory and were hatching new terror acts. In Yedelev's words, new methods were used during the special operation: officially permitted Cheremukha-7 gas was used to neutralize the bandits who entrenched themselves in an apartment. "Gunmen suffered a serious blow" in the two-day operation. On Saturday, "a laboratory, producing various explosives, was busted at a garage in Nalchik. "The laboratory produced explosives of heat and push types as well as remotely controlled devices," the deputy minister reported. Great quantities of TNT, plastic, RDX, saltpeter ammonia, aluminum powder and 69 detonators were seized there. Apart from the above killed gunmen, another five members of the same group were arrested on Saturday in Kabardino-Balkaria. The investigation of this case is being continued.