GROZNY. May 27 (Interfax-AVN) - Several plastic barrels with arms and ammo were found in an extremist cache in the Shali district of Chechnya, a source in the chief military prosecutor's office of the breakaway republic told Interfax-Military News Agency on Monday.
"Rebels established the cache in a grave at the cemetery of the Mesker-Yurt village," the source said. Data on the cache's location was provided to the federals by a local resident.
The cache contained a huge number of assault rifles including those made in Romania, a portable Shmel flame-thrower, an RPG-18 portable grenade launcher and rounds to it. All those arms have factory identification. According to the source, "agents of the Federal Security Service are exposing the chain of arms supply to rebels."
The cache also had a list of radio frequencies which rebels use in the district, as well as several documents from the archive of a so-called extremist sniper school. The source stressed that the "documents contain information making it possible to determine the school's location."
Federal units engaged in special operations in the Mesker-Yurt village and on its outskirts detained several rebels hiding in the district. According to the military, almost 40 rebels escaped to the neighboring Kurchaloi district and special operations will be stepped up in the area.