YESSENTUKI, North Caucasus, April 24 (AVN) - The operations headquarters led by Yuri Shein, chief of the Yessentuki police department, approved on Tuesday the plan of top priority operations aimed at disclosing the terrorist act committed in the city the day before, the Military News Agency learned.
Currently it is known that two home-made pipe bombs with the total capacity equal to 200g of TNT went off at the city cemetery. One of them had a clock mechanism, for timer remains were found at the site. Specialists believe that the explosive devices were planted overnight to Monday on the cemetery's outskirts for the main territory of all cemeteries in the region is regularly patrolled by police and cossack detachments.
The law-enforcement agencies are currently detecting people who were at the cemetery during the terrorist act. Particularly, they take measures to detain a North Caucasus native who ran away right after the blasts. His special peculiarities are already exposed.
Two women injured by the blasts are in the city hospital in satisfactory conditiony. As to the general situation in the area, there have been many telephone calls informing police about allegedly planted explosive devices since Tuesday morning. Operative groups are working in the town of Zheleznovodsk and in the Ulyanovka village of the Mineralnye Vody district from where bombs were allegedly exposed in secondary schools. And though none of those reports seems to be true the police and sappers have to check each of them.