VLADIKAVKAZ/GROZNY. April 8 (Interfax-AVN) - Abandoned arms and ammunition were found in a cache at the former army training ground on the outskirts of Vladikavkaz, law-enforcement bodies of Russia's internal republic of North Ossetia said on Friday.
An 82-mm mortar, 648 30-mm shells, 10 grenade launcher rounds and over 600 14.5-mm cartridges were seized from the cache, a law-enforcement official told Interfax-Military News Agency.
Investigation into the origins of the cache is underway.
In another development, police seized a grenade launcher, a hunting rifle, six grenades and over 200 cartridges of various caliber in the towns of Grozny and Gudermes and the localities of Zamai-Yurt, Zandak and Soguny on Thursday, a spokesman for the Chechen Interior Ministry told Interfax-AVN. Two improvised explosive devices were destroyed, too.
A day earlier, law-enforcement officials found and destroyed a cache on the outskirts of Gudermes. The cache contained an RPG-26 grenade launcher, five hand grenades and two improvised explosive devices.