MOSCOW. March 9 (Interfax) - Forty-six kilograms of explosives have been seized from a cache outside Makhachkala, the Dagestan Interior Ministry told Interfax.
The cache was found in the outskirts of the village of Zagorodny during an operation carried out by local security, police and penitentiary officers.
"In it, they found 21 packs of an explosive substance, ammonite, weighing in total 46 kilograms, as well as several dozen cartridges of various calibers," a spokesperson said.
Also, an improvised explosive device (IED) wrapped in a plastic bag was found in a pile of rubbish in Lenin street in the Dagestani town of Buinaksk on Tuesday, the official said.
Four police officers were injured after being attacked in the village of Semender near Makhachkala on Monday night, the spokesperson said.
Police crews stopped a Priora vehicle for ID checks. "The people inside the vehicle fired at the policemen and escaped, having dumped the car. As a result of the shooting four policemen have been taken to hospitals in Makhachkala," the spokesperson said.
A less-lethal pistol converted into a real firearm, five cell phones and seven TT pistol shells have been seized from the car left by the criminals. Efforts are under way to identify the assailants.
On Monday, a suspected militant was killed in Partizanskaya street in the village of Verkhniye Achaluki in Ingushetia.
"Local resident Bagaudin Bogatyryov was detained during a security operation at around 10 a.m. Moscow time. Bogatyryov opened fire and was killed during a skirmish," investigators in Ingushetia told Interfax.
The inspection of the scene revealed that the 42-year-old slain man was in possession of a 5.45 caliber AK assault rifle and a magazine.
Meanwhile, a source from Ingushetia's law enforcement authorities told Interfax that Bogatyryov was a member of the Khasan Korigov gang and a "close connection" of Said Buryatsky.
A man was killed by his own grenade in Nalchik on Tuesday, the Russian Investigative Committee office in Kabardino-Balkaria said.
A police patrol squad spotted the man near the secondary school N19 in the Gorny district of Nalchik at around 8:30 p.m. and asked him to stop for ID checks, investigators said.
"The man tried to escape and was about to throw the grenade at the police office but it blew up in his hand. He died at the scene. None of the police officers was hurt," the official said.
The man was in possession of a Stechkin pistol and 20 cartridges, he said. Attempts are now being made to identify him.
Also, the Kabardino-Balkaria Operational Headquarters reported that the law enforcement officers had found a cache with arms and ammunition in Nalchik.
"The search operation has revealed that this cache belonged to a local insurgent who was killed while making an improvised explosive device in December 2010," the statement said.
The cache contained a Saiga hunting shotgun with two magazines and 21 cartridges of the 7.62 millimeter caliber, a PM pistol with one magazine and eight 9-millimeter cartridges, a PSM pistol, an F-1 grenade, 43 cartridges of the 5.45 millimeter caliber, 1 primer for the UZGRM-2 grenade and a smoke bomb. Also, about one kilogram of aluminum powder, two portable radio receivers, six 1.5 Volt batteries and medications have been found there. kk dp