(Interfax-AVN) - A local resident has voluntarily surrendered 60 kilograms of explosives to police in the village of Khambi-Irze in Chechnya's Achkhoi-Martan district, sources in Chechen law enforcement services told Interfax by phone on Tuesday. "The explosives were afterwards blown up by a field engineering team of the local commandant's office," the source said. Several militants and their accomplices have turned themselves in to police in Chechnya over the past 24 hours, according to law enforcement services. A resident of the village of Biltoi-Yurt in the Gudermes district told the police that he fought against federal forces as a member of an illegal armed group in 1999. Two residents of the Naura district confessed to having undergone training at a militant training center in the village of Khatuni in 1997. In the Gudermes district, a local resident confessed to serving in the "Ichkeria National Guard" from 1991 to 1994.
The fact that six people have voluntarily reported to law enforcement agencies and applied for amnesty was confirmed to Interfax by Chechen Interior Ministry spokesman Magomed Deniyev on Tuesday morning. Deniyev said that all of those who have given themselves up to the authorities were militants or their collaborators at different times between 1994 and 2006. Two of them underwent military training near the village of Tevzena in Chechnya's Vedeno district.