Roadside bomb attack prevented in Chechnya

MOSCOW. March 29 (Interfax-AVN) - A roadside explosive device was disarmed in the vicinity of Dyshne-Vedeno, a village in Chechnya's Vedeno district, during an engineering reconnaissance operation by a Defense Ministry unit stationed in the republic, a law-enforcement official told Interfax-AVN on Thursday.

"A TM-57 mine was detected at the side of the road nearby Dyshne-Vedeno. It was destroyed by explosion," he said.

According to him, a large cache with ammunition was found in the Leninsky district of Grozny on Wednesday. "It was found during an operation to verify the information from local agents in the attic of a damaged building in Kavkazskaya Street. The cache held 12 82-mm mines, five 152-mm rounds, four rockets, seven homemade detonators and over 100 rounds of different caliber," he said.