Gunfire in Grozny intensifiesRuslan Isayev,North Caucasus - Explosions and gunfire can be heard in Grozny even during the day, the inhabitants of the Chechen capital say.
On Monday, the Russian military carried out a „mopping-up operation“ on the territory of the central market in Grozny where a day before an unknown man shot dead a serviceman of Russian interior forces, seizing his victim’s weapon and hiding in ruins in full view of the passers-by.
The marketplace was immediately surrounded by the Russian military, who detained over twenty persons. One of the detainees testified that the investigators beat him continously on his head by a plastic bottle full of water. The whereabouts of the other detained are unknown.
On Monday, two Russian soldiers died in an incident at a Russian roadblock in the southwest Grozny suburbs of Chernorechye. According to witnesses who were passing through the roadblock at that moment, shooting was heard from the place where the Russian guards live. Consequently a report came that two soldiers were killed. However, the witnesses say that nobody fired at the roadblock from outside. Transport was blocked for three hours but no „mopping-up operation“ followed. |
