KHANKALA, April 27 (AVN) - A radio-controlled landmine went off several metres from a Ural truck carrying quick response unit members in Grozny's Oktyabtsky district on Thursday, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry department for Chechnya told the Military News Agency.
Several police officers were contused by the explosion, the spokesman said.
Also that day, unidentified rebels armed with assault rifles and underbarrel grenade launchers opened fire at a checkpoint manned by servicemen of the Interior Ministry troops in the Assinovskaya village of the Achkhoi-Martan district. One federal was killed and six wounded in the attack, the spokesman said.
According to data obtained by the law-enforcement agencies, the police carried out 20 search and preventive operations in Chechnya on Thursday. They checked 20,270 people and 10,727 vehicles and exposed 512 administrative offences, including 146 violations of passport rules.
Policemen seized two grenade launchers, an assault rifle, a flame-thrower, a rifle, a hunting rifle, a sawn-off rifle, six artillery shells, 15 mortar shells, 107 grenade launcher rounds, 31 hand grenades, 3,290 small-arms cartridges and 5.1kg of explosives. Besides, 16 illegal oil refineries were eliminated.