GROZNY. June 19 (Interfax-AVN) - Chechen guerillas have made two armed assaults at automobiles of police and servicemen at once in the streets of Grozny in the past few days.
"Two unidentified persons fired assault rifles and a grenade discharger at a VAZ car at the intersection of Sheripova Street and Partizanskaya Street in Grozny on Wednesday. Senior Lieutenant Bekkhan Burzikov, senior inspector for armaments at the Zavodskoi district interior department was riding in the car," a source in Chechen Interior Ministry told Interfax- Military News Agency.
"The police officer was badly wounded as a result of the assault and subsequently died in hospital at the Severny airport. His relative, Movsar Burzikov, who drove the car, was injured and taken to hospital," he said.
According to the source, guerillas fired at officials of the Federal Security Service department for Chechnya and servicemen of the local commandant's office riding a Niva car at the intersection of Lenin Street and Krasnykh Frontovikov Street the night before. Nobody was hurt as a result of the assault.
The source said that policemen found a cache with weapons and ammunition during a search operation in an abandoned house situated 3 km south of the Pobedinskoye village in the Grozny rural district. The cache contained an RPG-22 portable grenade launcher, a Tigr 7.62-mm rifle, six RGD hand grenades, two RGN hand grenades, 11 grenades for an AGS-17 automatic grenade launcher and more than 100 cartridges in cartridge belts.