KHANKALA, March 12 (AVN) - Officers of temporary police departments have carried out 24 search and preventive operations in Chechnya in the past 24 hours, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry department for Chechnya told the Military News Agency on Monday.
Officers checked 18,440 citizens and 18,813 vehicles, exposed 1,223 administrative offences, including 128 violations of passport rules. They confiscated two assault rifles, two pistols, five hunting rifles, a flame thrower, a grenade launcher, five grenade launcher rounds, 56 hand grenades, 21 artillery shells, two mortar shells, 2,164 small arms cartridges, 0.46kg of TNT and 0.24kg of drug substances. Besides, the police eliminated 18 illegal oil refineries.
Officers of the Naursky district department detained seven locals in the Chernokozovo village. The men are suspected of committing a number of grave crimes in Chechnya.
Three extremists tried to plant a radio-controlled explosive device near a hospital in the Leninsky district of Grozny at 15.30 Moscow time (1230 GMT). One extremist was killed, another was detained and the third one disappeared. The detainee is 21 years old and unemployed.
An explosive device went off under the first car of a freight train with empty tanks at the 2,186th kilometre of the North Caucasus railroad in the Gudermes district of Chechnya at 9.30 Moscow time (0630 GMT) on Thursday. The car's frame and brake cylinder were damaged together with 80cm of rails. No casualties were registered.