NIZHNY NOVGOROD. Jan 23 (Interfax-AVN) - Scouts of an operations brigade reporting to the Volga district of the Interior Ministry troops have destroyed a guerilla who attempted to mine the Argun-Dzhalka motorway in Chechnya.
"The brigade's servicemen found the rebel during reconnaissance operations in the vicinity of the Dzhalka forest," the district's press service chief Lieutenant Colonel Igor Sofronov told Interfax-Military News Agency on Thursday.
Scouts using a night vision device detected an armed man who was carrying a heavy sack on his back. The servicemen blocked retreat routes but the guerilla fired an assault rifle at them. Reprisal fire killed the rebel, and several bullets pierced his sack. After that, a powerful blast occurred.
Sofronov stressed that a bullet hit the landmine's fuse. The blast literally tore the rebel into pieces. A Kalashnikov assault rifle and a Kenwood radio station which guerillas use to blast landmines were found at the scene.
Sappers of the brigade also found a makeshift explosive device on the road between the Argun and Mesker-Yurt localities on Wednesday. The device was made on the basis of a TNT charge reinforced with a 82mm mortar shell. The landmine was detonated by the sappers. A Kenwood radio station was seized on the scene.