GROZNY. Nov 27 (Interfax-AVN) - It took law-enforcers in the Urus-Martan district of Chechnya less than a day to identify rebels who blasted a landmine in the center of the town of Urus-Martan on Monday evening, Major General Gaidar Gadzhiyev, the district's military commandant, said.
"The criminals were posing as local residents, they are being searched for and will be detained in the near future," Gadzhiyev told Interfax-Military News Agency.
The powerful landmine was planted in a garbage container on the route that employees of several local administrative bodies take on their way home. "Only by a lucky chance no one was injured," Gadzhiyev stressed.
According to him, the district's law-enforcers have launched special operations to detect rebels posing as local residents and their supporters. Several arms and ammo caches have been eliminated in a number of villages in the district.