GROZNY. Nov 11 (Interfax-AVN) - Three terrorist attacks, targeted at peaceful citizens and federal servicemen, were disrupted in Chechnya on Monday, a source in the Regional Headquarters of the Antiterrorist Operation in the North Caucasus told Interfax-Military News Agency.
"A combat engineer reconnaissance unit detected a makeshift charge, based on a PG-7V rocket launcher round, on the wayside 3.5 km south-west of the village of Mesker-Yurt in the Shali district. In the ensuing sweep the second wire-controlled makeshift explosive charge, based on a 122-mm artillery round, was detected at a range of three to four meters from the first one," the source said.
The charges detected were destroyed by a superimposed charge.
According to the source, another explosive charge, based on a grenade launcher round and augmented by 400 grams of TNT, was neutralized half a meter away from the curb in the Leninsky district of Grozny.
According to the source, a cache was detected and destroyed in the village of Benoi of the Nozhai-Yurt district in the course of the joint operation, conducted by the Chechen president's security service and a federal unit. There terrorists hid three makeshift explosive charges, based on six 150-mm artillery rounds (two rounds per charge), two explosive charges, based on eight 82- mm mines with attachment assemblies (four mines per charge), an MON-100 mine, 1,080 small arms rounds, an electric wire coil, three storage batteries (with two of them for a Panasonic video camera), and three impact fuses for pressure-activated explosive charges.
A cache, storing an RPO-A Shmel flame-thrower, was also found in a pile of garbage in a dilapidated house in Zavety Ilicha Street in Grozny's Staropromyslovsky district. The following arms were confiscated from a cache, detected on the outskirts of the Agishty village in the Shali district: four 82- mm mortar rounds, three 380-mm rocket-assisted projectiles, 1.5 kg of TNT, 12 hand grenades, 36 rocket launcher rounds of various modifications, and 1,500 small arms rounds.
According to the Regional Headquarters, ten criminal offenses were reported in Chechnya on Monday, with four of them investigated on the spot. Officials also registered 564 administrative offenses, while about 50 people were apprehended.