Federal forces destroy huge rebel storehouse in Chechnya

KHANKALA. July 25 (Interfax-AVN) - Federal forces have destroyed a huge rebel storehouse of explosives in Chechnya, a source in the unified federal headquarters in the North Caucasus told Interfax-Military News Agency on Thursday.

"Two guerrilla caches that contained some 300kg of TNT were found in the course of reconnaissance operations near the Yalkhoi- Mokhk village in the Nozhai-Yurt district of the republic on Wednesday evening," the source said.

He stressed that the caches also contained some 10,000 small- arms cartridges, a large amount of medicines and disposable needles. "Everything was destroyed by blast on the spot," the source added.

Reconnaissance operations in the district are underway.