KHANKALA. June 16 (Interfax-AVN) - A rebel who had offered arms resistance to police officers and agents of the Federal Security Service in Ingushetia's Sunzhenskaya district was killed by the blast of a homemade hand grenade, the Russian Interior Ministry's provisional press center in the North Caucasus reported on Wednesday.
"Two rebels hiding in a house in the Ordzhonikidzevskaya village offered armed resistance to law-enforcement. During the engagement, a bandit born in 1985 and residing in Chechnya's Shelkovskaya district was killed by the blast of a homemade hand grenade, the so-called Khattabka. His accomplice was detained," the report reads.
The detainee is being identified. Federal seized a pistol with an allowance of ammunition and homemade hand grenades on the scene of the engagement. Measures aimed at detaining rebels and their accomplices continue, the press center says.
The report confirmed that two members of Maitukayev's rebel gang, born in 1977 and 1980, both residents of Chechnya, were detained in Grozny's Staropromyslovsky district. Two more gang members, wounded in the engagement, managed to escape. A grenade launcher, an assault rifle, three grenades, and 120 assault rifle cartridges were seized on the scene. Measures are being taken to find the rest of the gang members.
Policemen of the Vedeno district obtained irrefutable proof of two rebels' involvement in the attack on the MI-8 Hip helicopter in the Dyshne-Vedeno village in August 2003. The two man, born in 1971 and 1981, were members of warlord Imurzayev's gang. They have been detained a while ago. Measures are being taken to determine their complicity in other crimes, the report reads.