GROZNY. Nov 18 (Interfax-AVN) - The Federal Security Service (FSB) and military commandant unit personnel have checked out over 100 addresses in the village of Raduzhnoye, in Chechnya's Grozny rural district, and detained over 10 people suspected of being involved in Umar Paizulanov's gang, which is believed to be responsible for the abduction of two staff members of the International Red Cross, a spokesman for the FSB branch in Chechnya told Interfax on Monday.
This operation may have facilitated the rescue by the Grozny police and the Chechen administration head's security service of the abducted men, Alexander Panov and Musa Satushiyev, a source from another law enforcement agency told Interfax on Monday.
Chechen deputy administration head Movsar Khamidov told the press on Sunday that no ransom had been paid and that the suspects in the abduction had been arrested.
Masked gunmen abducted Panov and Satushiyev on a road between the villages of Pobedinskoye and Goragorsky on Wednesday. They released two other Red Cross employees.
The International Red Cross personnel were accompanying a convoy of three vehicles returning to Ingushetia after having delivered humanitarian cargo to Grozny. The two abducted men have been employed as truck drivers by the International Red Cross office in Nalchik for years.