GROZNY. May 17 (Interfax-AVN) - A Chechen militant has turned himself in to police and admitted his involvement in armed attacks on federal troops and police officers.
The man, who has been identified as Anvar Abdulkadyrov, also said he had helped kidnap a Gudermes district resident for a ransom, Chechen Interior Ministry press secretary Amin Deniyev told Interfax on Wednesday.
Another militant surrendered in the village of Zakan-Yurt in the Achkhoi-Martan district.
A woman from the village of Kokadoi handed in three shells and 400 cartridges found by her outside the village. She will be paid a reward, Deniyev said.
Automatic weapons, grenade launchers, grenades, cartridges, shells, explosive devices, 55 syringes and 100 grams of heroin were confiscated from caches found in the town of Vedeno and outside the village of Kurchaloi, Roman Shchekotin, spokesman for the Interior Ministry's Southern Federal District branch, told Interfax.