KHANKALA. Jan 9 (Interfax-AVN) - Two servicemen of a district military commandant's office suffered serious injuries when a remote-controlled mine was blasted in Grozny on Tuesday.
The headquarters of the federal forces in the North Caucasus told Interfax-Military News Agency that the mine went off at about 4 p.m. Moscow time (1300 GMT), after a combat engineer unit defused a mine and was looking for another one. The incident occurred in the Zavodskoi district of Grozny.
Also on Tuesday, a landmine went off in the vicinity of Stakhanov Street. It damaged a Ural track moving on a nearby highway but failed to affect any elite policemen from the Siberian city of Omsk that were riding on the vehicle.
According to data made available to Interfax-AVN, federal law-enforcers detained one suspected rebel in Grozny on Tuesday. They seized four pieces of small arms and about 300 cartridges.