KHANKALA. Oct 29 (Interfax-AVN) - An engineering patrol has found and defused a powerful radio-controlled landmine near the Shushiya village in the Novolakskaya district of the Dagestani autonomous republic bordering Chechnya.
"The village hosts no military units, thus, the landmine was planted solely in order to carry out a subversive and terrorist act against local residents," a source in the unified federal headquarters in the North Caucasus told Interfax-Military News Agency on Tuesday.
A wire-controlled landmine charged with some 1kg of TNT was found and defused by sappers in the way of a federal unit near the Chechen-Aul village in the Grozny rural district on Monday evening.
According to the source, three more landmines were found by engineering patrols in the Kurchaloi district of Chechnya on Monday. Two of them were booby traps and were supposed to destroy light-armored vehicles, while the third one was radio-controlled. All the landmines were disarmed by sappers.