GROZNY. Feb 11 (Interfax-AVN) - Three officers of the Oktyabrsky district police department were injured in Grozny on Sunday as their vehicle hit a landmine, a spokesman for the Chechen military prosecutor's office told Interfax-Military News Agency.
A makeshift explosive device planted by rebels in Krasnoflotskaya Street went off when a UAZ jeep of the department was passing by.
Also on Sunday, rebels attacked a strongpoint in the Leninsky district of the city where police officers of a composite unit of the Maritime Territory were accomplishing their missions. The rebels fired grenade launchers and automatic guns at the strongpoint when riding on a car. According to the spokesman, no casualties were registered among federals. The attackers escaped from the site.
Federal forces found an ammo cache on the outskirts of the Dyshne-Vedeno village in the Vedeno district of the breakaway republic when carrying out special operations, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry department for Chechnya told Interfax-AVN. The cache contained some 30 artillery shells, five antipersonnel mines and several portable grenade launcher rounds.