MOSCOW. March 12 (Interfax) - Four gang members were killed and another eight were detained during a counterterrorism operation in the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in Russia's North Caucasus, the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) said in a press release seen by Interfax on Tuesday.
"Eight members of armed groups were detained. Three automatic weapons, ammunition, an explosive device equivalent to over five kilograms of TNT (it was disposed of on the spot), a grenade launcher, TNT blocks, a pistol and packages containing heroin and marijuana were confiscated from their cars and a number of searched sites," it said.
Four gang members were killed in a shootout with police.