Information Bulletin № 1307

 Chechen Republic                                              Republic of Ingushetia

Republic of Ingushetia

Five people killed in Karabulak

            According to the information, received from local residents, in the morning on 11 June, in the town of Karabulak employees of power departments blocked a private house # 23 located on Oskanova-street. The household, in which, according to law enforcers, several participants of armed formations found shelter, underwent massed bombardment from automatic and heavy weapons. As a result, a fire has occurred there.

            According to local residents, there were five persons in the blocked house, including the landlady of the house and her son. All of them were killed. The information on victims and injures among law enforcers is not available.

The circumstances of the incident and surnames of victims are being established.

Chechen Republic

Militiaman detained in Vedeno district

            According to the information received from an inhabitant of Vedenski district, on the previous day here law enforcers detained and took away to unknown direction an employee of local militia department. There is information that he has been accused of aiding and abetting militants.

The surname of the arrested person and the circumstances of the incident are being established.

«Address special operation» in Grozny

            Several days ago in Zavodskoi district of the city of Grozny employees of power departments conducted a regular "address special operation". During this "action" they detained a local resident Vakha Tantaev.

According to some information, a "standard" charge in belonging to militants was brought against the arrested person.

 Life attempt on militiamen in Shali district

            In the afternoon on 10 June, on a highway between district center of Shali and the settlement of Agishty in Shalinski district an explosive of the big capacity worked at the moment when two vehicles (an automobile "UAZ" and a truck "Ural") with employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia was passing by. As a result of the explosion of the self-made land mine incorporated on the roadside, none of the militiamen has suffered.

The information on it is received from an inhabitant of Shali.

Three persons injured in Grozny

            On 7 June, in Staropromyslovski district of the city of Grozny a powerful explosion occurred. As it became known, workers of the organization "Grozneft were cleaning the roadside of the highway and the knife of the grader machine hooked an unidentified explosive device. This explosion caused serious damages to the special equipment.

The driver of a grader as well as drivers of two cars of “Volga” and “Zhiguli” passing by at that moment received wounds and traumas of various degrees. Luckily, this incident did not end with major human casualties.

11 June  2008

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