KHANKALA. Nov 18 (Interfax-AVN) - Four guerillas were destroyed in the Kurchaloi district of Chechnya during a pin-point operation by a unit of the unified federal troops group on Monday.
"It happened 1.5km northwest of the Bachi-Yurt village. Guerillas put up armed resistance to the arrest and were killed," a spokesman for the group's headquarters told Interfax-Military News Agency.
He said that one of the rebels was identified as Musa Banzhayev, 42, resident of the Gezinchu village of the Vedeno district.
According to Chechen law-enforcement agencies, Banzhayev was a member of an illegal extremist group.