VLADIKAVKAZ/MOSCOW. Jan 21 (Interfax-AVN) - A road engineer company has been relocated to the village of Bamut in Chechen mountains for the construction of a roadbed.
"The company that arrived from the Volga-Ural military district will accomplish missions related to the construction of reads in Chechnya," a source in the headquarters of the 58th joint-arms army told Interfax-Military News Agency on Tuesday.
A source in the Defense Ministry told Interfax-AVN that several road engineer units will engage in this work on the Chechen territory in accordance with an earlier decision.
The source in the army headquarters stressed that engineering equipment is being relocated to the village very quickly.
He recalled that the terrorist act that was committed on the administrative border between the autonomous republics of North Ossetia and Ingushetia on January 18 was aimed against military builders. A serviceman died when an engineering barrage vehicle he was driving was blasted by a radio controlled landmine.
The incident took place on the road between the North Ossetian village of Sunzha and the Ingush village of Ali-Yurt some 500 meters from the administrative border.
A road engineer battalion convoy of 14 vehicles was riding down the road between Sunzha and Ali-Yurt towards the Chechen village of Nizhny Bamut when a makeshift explosive device blasted. The device supposedly consisted of two 122-mm artillery shells.
As a result of the blast a 22-year-old driver of a vehicle died. A criminal case was launched in connection with the incident.