Information Bulletin № 1245

 Chechen Republic                                              Republic of Ingushetia

Chechen Republic

Ten people suffered near Shali district center

            According to the information, received from local residents, late night on the 16th of March, on the outskirts of the district center of Shali a large car accident has occurred. As a result of the clash of two cars of "Zhiguli" ten people received different types of traumas and mutilations. There were four children among them, the oldest of which was 14 years. Later victims were hospitalized to the local hospital.

            This information was provided by eyewitnesses of the incident. According to the people, the reason for the accident was that the driver of one of the cars moving on a high speed took a wrong side of the road.

According to local law enforcement bodies, only last year, as a result of the road accident, on highways of the republic more than two hundred people died.

Young woman disappeared in Urus-Martan

            On the 2nd of February of this year, in the town of Urus-Martan in unclear circumstances a local inhabitant, the mother of 4 small children Madina Nanaeva, born in 1980, disappeared. This information was obtained from friends of the missing person. According to the available information, in the morning on the 2nd of February, the young woman left the house and did not return. Attempts of Nanaeva’s relatives to establish her whereabouts and her destiny were fruitless.

«Address special operation» in Selmentauzen

            According to the information, received from local residents, on the 12th of March, in the village of Selmentauzen of Vedenski district employees of power structures detained and took away to unknown direction a 35-years local resident. According to some information, the arrested person was accused of aiding and abetting insurgents.

The surname of the arrested person and the circumstance of the incident are beingh established.

Local resident detained in Shelkozavodskaya

            According to one of the inhabitants of the stanitsa of Shelkozavodskaya of Shelkovski district, several days ago in this settlement workers of local law enforcement bodies detained their villager, a young man of 32 - 34th years (the surname is not provided due to the request of the source). A "standard" charge in belonging to insurgents was brought against the detainee.

Republic of Ingushetia

FSB employee murdered in Ekazhevo

            On March 14, in the village of Ekazhevo of Nazranovski district, near the local mosque, unknown persons moving on a car of "Zhiguli" VAZ-2107 of beige color opened fire from automatic weapons at a vehicle with employees of the republican department of FSB. As a result of the attack, one of the law enforcers was killed, and two others received various wounds and were hospitalized.

            The attackers managed to escape to unknown direction. Their searches undertaken by employees of local law enforcement bodies have not brought any results.

According to some information, next day the car "Zhiguli", on which the assailants had been moving, was found in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya of Ingushetia’s Sunzhenski district. The surname of the killed law enforcer as well as those injured in this incident, are being established.

Local resident, wounded by militiaman, died in Nazran hospital

            As it became known from one of the local residents, on March 12, Kotiev, the inhabitant of the village of Gamurzievo, died in Nazran hospital. One week before his death, Kotiev was heavily wounded by employees of local militia, which opened fire at his car.

            According to the source, Kotiev had passed one of the militia posts without noticing that he was required to stop. "Observers of law and order" opened a massive fire at his car from automatic weapons, as a result of which he had received a heavy gunshot wound and had been hospitalized to Nazran republican hospital. Despite of all efforts of doctors, it was impossible to save the life of the father of four children.

17 March 2008

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