(Itar-Tass) - A total of six participants in illegal paramilitary units have given themselves up in Chechnya over the past 24 hours. One of the militants has surrendered a submachine-gun, Chechen Interior MinistryÂ’s spokesman Magomed Diniyev told Itar-Tass. Since the beginning of this year, some 24 militants have given themselves up to ChechnyaÂ’s law-enforcement bodies, and their involvement in grave and especially grave crimes is being ascertained, Diniyev said.