Information Bulletin № 1306
Chechen Republic Republic of Ingushetia
Chechen Republic
Café blown up in Grozny
From ten to 12 persons suffered in the evening on 9 June due to an explosion in a cafe "Dallas", which is situated on Bogdana Khmelnitski street in Leninski district. This information is provided by local residents.
According to the people, a powerful explosion occurred in the premises of the café approximately at 20.30. At that moment there was a group of employees of the republican OMON there ("Dallas" is located in the immediate proximity from the base of the Chechen ОМОN (Special Police Force). Several minutes later another explosion occurred in the cafe.
Eight militiamen and four civilians, including two women, workers of the café, received different wound and traumas. The premise was almost completely destroyed.
According to the available information, a land mine has been blown up in the cafe "Dallas". The state of one of the militiamen suffered in explosion is estimated as the gravest. Surnames of the victims are being established.
Wounded person detained near Vedeno
According to the information, received from local residents, on the previous day, in the vicinity of the regional center of Vedeno employees of power departments conducted a "cleaning up operation" in a large forest and found a wounded man. There is information that it was a local resident, who was a member of one of the armed formations (the surname is being established).
The man, who has got a wound to the belly, was detained by law enforcers and taken away to unknown direction.
Two male bodies found near Isti-Su
On 5 June, in a large forest near the village of Isti-Su of Gudermesski district employees of law enforcement bodies revealed a burial place, in which there were remains of two men in camouflage uniform. This information was received from eyewitnesses of the incident.
There is information that the killed persons had been kidnapped by employees of unidentified power structures in summer of 2004. According to some information, one of them was a resident of Vedenski district.
Earlier a grave with remains of the inhabitant of Yalkhoi-Mokhk of Kurchaloi district Akhmed Dzhamalov was found there. This person had been also kidnapped by unknown persons several years ago. (Information Release № 1305 of 9 June 2008).
Republic of Ingushetia
Car burnt out in Ordzhonikidzevskaya
As it became known from inhabitants of the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya of Sunzhenski district, at night on 9 June, in this settlement unknown persons burnt out a vehicle of "BMW" belonging the owner of a slot machines hall. The car was almost completely destroyed by fire. There are no victims and injures available in this incident.
Who and with what purpose accomplished this crime is not established.
Additional information
At night of June 9, in the center of the city of Nazran unknown persons killed an officer of the Ingush militia. As it became known from city dwellers, assailants, moving in a car, made several shots from small arms into an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, and then disappeared to unknown direction. The latter died on the scene from the received wounds. The attempt to detain the assailants has failed.
The surname of the killed militia officer is being established. For the time being, it is known that he was an employee of the Directorate for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia. (Information Release № 1305 of 9 June 2008).
As it became known today, the victim of unknown criminals became the senior lieutenant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia Dembulat Bagolov.
10 June 2008
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