| The police and the security services killed 22 men from underground illegal armed groups and arrested 36 gunmen in Chechnya over the past month, a representative of the provisional press centre of the Russian Interior Ministry in the Northern Caucasus told Itar-Tass on Wednesday. According to his information, the police exposed 35 crimes of a terrorist character since the beginning of the year. 180 acts of terrorism were prevented on the stage of preparation. 225 people, suspected with a good reason of being members of illegal armed groups, were arrested. 87 members of underground illegal armed groups died during armed clashes, when they tried to offer armed resistance to the police. Aside from it, 81 members of illegal armed groups voluntarily surrendered to the police this year, the provisional press centre reports. |