Special operations underway in northern ChechnyaRuslan Isayev, North Caucasus - Russian special services were active this week in the Shelkovsky and Naursky districts, trying to round up members of the Chechen resistance.
A search was conducted in Naursky for a group of 15 guerrillas led by Khasnurkayev, who reportedly came from neighbouring Shelkovsky. The results of the operation have not as yet been released.
Late Thursday night, in the central village of Naursky, a local resident was killed during a special operation by the Federal Security Service (FSB). The young man was a member of one of the Chechen guerrilla groups and during his armed resistance one FSB member was killed and another wounded.
In Grozny, a blast ripped through a yard of one of the apartment blocks on Starosunzhenskaya Street. An unidentified explosive, either a mine or unexploded shell, went off injuring four female passersby who were taken to the 9th Municipal Hospital.
Three Russian policemen from the special OMON units sent to Chechnya from Russia's Belgorodskaya region were seriously hurt in an explosion at a checkpoint near the village of Avtury. The reason given for this accident was that they had been careless while handling a grenade. (T/E) |
