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| 3 hard boyz bagged in Chechnya | |
| 2004-03-01 | |
Military scouts attacked a seven-strong militant group near the village of Borzoi, the Shatoi district on Friday. The group was secretly moving towards the forest. In a brief armed clash two extremists were destroyed. Hunting for remaining gunmen is underway.
Chechen police killed one more rebel in the Oktyabr district of Grozny. According to the press centre of the Russian Interior Ministry in the North Caucasus, police had carried out a detention of an armed criminal in this region. During the operation policemen stopped a car a driver of which opened fire on them. The policemen fired back and killed the attacker. His name was Magomed Kasumov a member of bandit formation led by Yunadi Turchayev. Chechen policeman Muslim Shabazgariyev was killed in the clash. In addition, Chechen police detained three gunmen in Grozny and the Urus-Martan district of the republic. All of them were behind staging acts of terrorism. From the gunmen detained in Grozny Zaindi Mukhtarov and Magomed Shovkhalov the policemen confiscated a landmine prepared for usage. The land mine was made of a mortar shell. The third detainee, Anzor Umayev, was on a wanted list for detonation of a landmine in Grozny in 2003. Three local residents were injured in the bomb attack then. | |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 Hunting for remaining gunmen is underway. "Destroyed." I like that terminology. Perhaps they meant, "Hunting for gunmen's remains is underway..."? |
| Posted by: Hyper 2004-3-1 8:12:37 PM |