NAZRAN. Nov 29 (Interfax-AVN) - The law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia were put on higher alert on the administrative border with Chechnya Friday.
The Ingush Interior Ministry has obtained information that Chechen guerillas had threatened to violate the border in order to free three persons detained on suspicion of having assaulted a passenger bus November 14, Musa Apiev, Ingushetia's deputy interior minister, told Interfax-Military News Agency.
The terrorist attack was committed in Malgobek. A hand grenade was thrown into a passenger bus, killing four and injuring six people.
Regular police posts in Malgobek have been reinforced. The police search cars and check the IDs of those coming to Ingushetia from the adjacent Nadterechny district of Chechnya.