MOSCOW, September 4 (AVN) - Border guards of the Russian Nazran detachment and Defence Ministry servicemen exposed a cache containing eight hand grenade launchers, 600 7.62 and 5.45mm cartridges and Wahhabi literature in the course of a reconnaissance operation on the Chechnya-Georgia border, the Military News Agency learned on Monday.
The group found another cache with six portable grenade launchers, four portable air defence systems and four tents while returning to the point of permanent stationing.
A total of 60 small arms, 16,000 pieces of ammunition and some 100kg of explosives has been seized in the area controlled by the Federal Border Guard Department since the beginning of the anti-guerrilla operation in the North Caucasus.