KHANKALA, January 23 (AVN) - Chechen policemen have carried out 24 search and preventive operations in Grozny, Argun, Gudermes, Achkhoi-Martan, Vedeno, Goryacheistochensk and other localities in the past 24 hours, a spokesman for the Russian Interior Ministry department for Chechnya told the Military News Agency on Tuesday.
The policemen checked 36,954 people and 19,347 vehicles, exposed 378 administrative offences including 65 violations of passport rules. They confiscated one grenade launcher, two assault rifles, six pistols, seven hunting rifles, as well as 66 artillery shells and mines, 83 grenades, 6,488 cartridges, 0.5kg of explosives and 0.77kg of illegal drugs. The officers destroyed two home-made oil refineries on Monday.
Policemen of the Staropromyslovsky district in Grozny detained two locals, one aged 26 and the other 24, who kept in their apartments one Kalashnikov assault rifle, three pistols, one F-1 grenade and 1,476 cartridges.
An unidentified explosive device went off on the outskirts of the Novogroznensky village on Monday afternoon, killing a 16-year-old boy and injuring two more teenagers, both aged 12. The injured were taken to hospital.