Cache of explosives found in Chechnya

MOSCOW. Nov 3 (Interfax) - Police have discovered a cache containing weapons and ammunition on the outskirts of Grozny, the capital of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, following a tip-off from a man detained earlier for helping militants, a source in law enforcement services told Interfax on Wednesday.

"An RPG-26 grenade launcher, two kilograms of plastid, two electric detonator and a cell phone with wires attached to it were confiscated from a cache found on the southern outskirts of Zagryazhsky village located in Grozny's Staropromyslovsky district at noon. The cache was found by Russian Interior Ministry officers as part of an investigation against an accomplice to militants who was detained earlier," the source said.