(Itar-Tass) - A vehicle with policemen came under fire in a pursuit operation in Chechnya. There were no losses among the policemen, a Chechen interior ministry source told Itar-Tass. The incident occurred near the residential site of Rubezhnoye late on Friday. The policemen pursued gunmen who were in a VAZ car, and the bandits opened fire on the police vehicle. In the exchange of fire, one gunman, Movsar Akhmadov, was killed. He had a Makarov pistol and two magazines for a Kalashnikov submachine gun.
Three Koran books, three sets of winter police uniform and about 300 grammes of brown-colour explosive substance, supposedly trinitrotoluene, were also found in the bandits' car when it was examined. Search was launched to detain the remaining gunmen.