31 May 2005, 13:06
One day in Chechnya
Law enforcement agencies have killed three rebels in the past 24 hours in Chechnya, a source with the republican Internal Affairs Ministry told Caucasian Knot.
Ramzan Shoipov who is reported to have been an accomplice of terrorist Movsar Barayev destroyed during the Dubrovka Theatre onslaught was killed in Grozny's Leninskii district yesterday. Sultan Akhmedov reported to have been the leader of a gang operating in the Shelkovskaia district was found and destroyed in a private house in Grozny.
Besides, a source with Chechnya's Internal Affairs Ministry told RIA Novosti another rebel had been killed in Grozny's Staropromyslovskii district last night. A grenade he threw wounded a police officer.
Two local residents, one of them a Chechen police officer, found a homemade grenade near Zakan-Yurt, Achkhoi-Martan district, on 30 May, a source with Chechnya's law enforcement agencies told Caucasian Knot. Trying to neutralise the grenade, the officer triggered it accidentally and was killed by the explosion. His companion sustained serious shrapnel wounds and was admitted to hospital.
Two eleven-year-old boys, Masud Akhayev and Anzor Yesiyev, triggered an unexploded shell while trying to disassemble it on the outskirts of Novyi Sharoi, Achkhoi-Martan district, yesterday. Both children died on the spot, the source said.
