GROZNY. May 17 (Interfax-AVN) - An officer of the Russian Interior Ministry Force was caught in a booby trap and injured in Chechnya, a spokesman for Chechen law-enforcement agencies said on Tuesday.
"An RGD-5 grenade set in a booby trap exploded when law-enforcers were conducting a search and reconnaissance operation in the Bolshoi Zapovednik tract in Chechnya's Shelkovskaya district. An officer was injured and taken to hospital as a result," the spokesman told Interfax-Military News Agency.
Law-enforcers also detected a crime which had been committed by a participant in militant resistance, who was detained a while ago, the Russian Interior Ministry's provisional press center in the North Caucasus told Interfax-AVN.
"While working with a 26-year-old resident of the Urus-Martan district, it was established that he and other gang members detonated a landmine on the unpaved motorway connecting Petropavlovskaya and Berkart-Yurt on January 19, 2004. A serviceman was injured as a result," a press center official said. A criminal case was opened in connection with this incident, and investigators are checking the detainee's possible involvement in other crimes.
Policeman detained three wanted members of militant resistance in the village of Samashki on Monday, the official said.
According to the press center, a cache was found in the half-ruined building of a shoe factory in Grozny's Oktyabrsky district on Monday. The cache contained an artillery shell, six grenade launcher rounds, two grenades, a mine, and three TNT charges. The ammo was destroyed on the spot.
Policemen checked 2,379 vehicles and 5,314 people in Chechnya on Monday. They registered 39 crimes, detecting 31 of them hot on the trail, and 242 administrative violations.