GROZNY. March 25 (Interfax-AVN) - A Grozny resident started a shootout with a police patrol and was wounded when the police tried to detain him, a spokesman for the police department for Chechnya told Interfax-Military News Agency on Monday.
"The patrol stopped a young man near House 74 in the Mayakovsky microdistrict of Grozny to check his ID but the man opened fire assault rifle fire," the spokesman said. The man was wounded in the shootout and detained.
"Being interrogated, the detainee identified himself as Aslan Ileyev, aged 24. It was established that he was a rebel group member dispatched to the Mayakovsky microdistrict to choose a site for planting a landmine," the spokesman said.
Law-enforcers carried out six special operations in the Vedeno, Nozhai-Yurt, Nadterechny and other districts of the breakaway republic on Sunday. They eliminated three rebels and detained eight people involved in terrorist acts, hostage-taking and other crimes.
Also on Sunday, federal forces destroyed two rebel bases near the Neftyanoye village in the Vedeno district and eliminated 22 arms and ammo caches. They found an Igla portable surface-to- air missile system in a cache located on the outskirts of the Tsa- Vedeno village of the same district. The cache also contained 20 small-arms pieces, 52 artillery shells, 96 mines, 26 grenade launchers, 232 hand grenades, some 20kg of explosives, 65,000 cartridges.
In addition, federals also defused nine explosive devices.