Suspected murderer of two policemen detained in Chechnya

KHANKALA. July 30 (Interfax-AVN) - A rebel suspected of murdering two policemen from the Shatoi district in June has been detained in the village of Ulus-Kert.

Colonel Ilya Shabalkin, the spokesman for the regional headquarters managing the anti-guerilla operation in the North Caucasus, told Interfax on Wednesday that the rebel has been identified as Ismail Mezhidov, born in 1978.