KHANKALA. Sept 17 (Interfax-AVN) - A diesel-locomotive shunter was blown up between Kadiy-Yurt and Gerzel-Aul in Chechnya's Gudermes district on Tuesday, the temporary press- service of the Russian Interior Ministry in the North Caucasus told Interfax.
The press-service noted that the railway had been damaged, but there had not been any victims or injured.
The press-service also emphasized that on Tuesday officers of the Urus-Martan, the Kurchaloi, and the Staropromyslovsky Interior Ministry district departments arrested six active members of terrorist cells, most of whom were wanted by federal authorities for serious offenses.
Two large radio-controlled high-explosive charges, based on a 122-mm and a 152-mm artillery rounds respectively, were detected and disposed of near the town of Argun.
On Tuesday police officers detected and neutralized a total of five arms and ammunition caches, quartering three assault rifles, 3,000 rounds, 19 grenades, 48 rocket-launcher rounds, 12 artillery shells, as well as high-explosive charges, detonators, radio stations, and TNT, the press-service said.
Another terrorist cache was detected in Chechnya by servicemen of the Argun border guard unit.
"Yesterday the reconnaissance unit detected a cave overgrown with shrubs. On closer inspection border guards found small-arms rounds, a bayonet, a radio station, and various items of military equipment," a press-service official of the North Caucasian Regional Border Guard Directorate told Interfax-Military News Agency on Wednesday.
According to the directorate headquarters, border guards have detected and destroyed in excess of 50 terrorist caches along various parts of the Russian-Georgian border since the beginning of the year. They have confiscated about 20 kg of explosives, in excess of ten weapon systems of various types, over 90 hand grenades, 1,500 rocket-launcher rounds, 80 mines, and more than 56 rounds of various caliber.
The temporary press-center of the Interior Ministry pointed out that officers had found five combine harvesters, which were sent to Chechnya from the centralized fund in 2001-2002, but were concealed from the account. This crime is being investigated.