SHALI. Sept 27 (Interfax-AVN) - Eight policemen were injured when an UAZ police vehicle touched off a radio-controlled landmine in the Shali district, a source in the district's police department told Interfax-Military News Agency on Friday.
"Guerillas blasted the radio-controlled landmine on a road leading to the Shali district center when a vehicle with elite policemen from the Kirov region was riding at the site," the source said.
According to him, "the only reason for the fact that nobody died in the blast can be the rebels' mistake; they failed to plant the landmine properly and its main blast wave went in a different way."
At the same time "two officers, a warrant officer and five sergeants were injured".
A spokesman for the Severny hospital located in Grozny where the injured policemen were delivered told Interfax-AVN that injuries do not pose danger to the policemen's lives.
The prosecutor's office of the Shali district launched a criminal case on the matter. Servicemen from the prosecutor's office and officers from the district's police department are searching for the guerillas.