NIZHNY NOVGOROD. April 3 (Interfax-AVN) - Federal troops detained 11 suspected rebels in the course of a multistage special operation carried out on the outskirts of the Chechen town of Argun, Lieutenant Colonel Igor Sofronov, press service chief of the Volga district of the Interior Ministry troops, told Interfax-Military News Agency on Wednesday.
The operation was held from March 30 to April 2 by servicemen of the district's operational brigade, agents of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and officers of the Argun police department.
The federals involved in the operation confiscated a portable grenade launcher, six hand grenades, a Makarov pistol, 300 bayonets of army standard, some 400 small-arms cartridges, three Kenwood short-wave radio sets, a coil of a field phone cable, two video cameras and 12 video tapes.
According to Sofronov, the tapes contain footage of federal sapper group operations, their array order and order of actions in conduction of engineer reconnaissance.