GROZNY. March 11 (Interfax-AVN) - Rebels have blasted a landmine planted on a bridge across the Aksai River near the Betti-Mokhk village in Chechnya's Nozhai-Yurt district, but the blast caused no damages to the bridge, a spokesman for the Federal Security Service (FSB) department for Chechnya told Interfax-Military News Agency on Monday.
No casualties were registered either, the spokesman said.
FBS agents involved in search operations have found and defused seven more landmines made on the basis of 122mm artillery shells. Search for the people involved in planting the landmines is underway.
A special operation which was carried out by the FSB department in the Kurchaloi district jointly with the local military commandant's office, police department and elite policemen resulted in detention of two rebels. The federals confiscated from them an RPK machine-gun, AKS-74 assault rifle, two Makarov pistols, 470 7.62mm small-arms cartridges, some 8,000 cartridges and two Kenwood radio stations.
Agents of the FSB department in the Nadterechny district found a makeshift grenade launcher round, two electric detonators, a Kenwood radio station, a fuse and a homemade silencer for the Kalashnikov assault rifle in the house of a local resident.