There were several combats between rebels and officers of law enforcement and security agencies in Chechnya last weekend.
Unknown attackers opened fire on a reconnaissance unit of a formation of the Russian Defence Ministry near Avtury, Shali district, in the afternoon on 2 October, a source with Chechnya's law enforcement agencies said. As a result, one contract serviceman was wounded and later admitted to hospital.
On the same day, two soldiers were wounded by a bomb detonating on the way of an armoured vehicle with Russian military men. One of the soldiers later died in hospital.
Another combat occurred near Kharsenoi, Shatoi district, the home village of field commander Dokku Umarov. A short clash resulted in two federal servicemen dying and another four wounded.
Two combats and two explosions were registered in the republic as of 6.00 ... >>full
An armoured vehicle with Russian military men ran into a Gazel minibus in the southeast of Chechnya on 4 October, an eyewitness of the accident reported.
The accident occurred on a road near Novye Atagi, Shali district.
"A Russian armoured personnel carrier rammed into a passenger Gazel on the outskirts of Novye Atagi in the afternoon yesterday. The place was at once sealed off," said Aslanbek, 27, resident in Achkhoi-Martan. "The minibus driver — people say his surname was Janbekov or Jambekov — died on the spot. Another three or four people sustained serious wounds and injuries."
A source in the republican Internal Affairs Ministry said an investigation had been launched. http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/872786.html
7/10/2005 Bomb kills one, wounds three Russian military men
An armoured vehicle with federal servicemen was blown up in Chechnya's Sunzhenskaia district. This is what the republican Internal Affairs Ministry told Caucasian Knot. The incident occurred on the federal motorway Kavkaz ("Caucasus").
"A radio controlled homemade explosive device was triggered the moment an armoured personnel carrier with servicemen from a federal mine-clearance unit was going by in the republic's Sunzhenskaia district on the Kavkaz motorway. The blast killed one serviceman. Another three, having sustained various injuries, were admitted to hospital," said the interlocutor.
A Chechen police officer was killed by unidentified persons in Chechnya's Grozny district, a source with republican law enforcement agencies said. The murder was committed on the night of 6 October in Vinogradnoye, according to the interlocutor.
"Unidentified persons killed an officer of the convoy service of Chechnya's Internal Affairs Ministry in the yard of his own house in Vinogradnoye, Grozny district," said the source. "The motives of this crime are yet unclear. The murderers did not take either the policeman's ID or his official weapon."
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/18/2005 2:26 AM Oct 18 2005 12:03PM 104 Chechen police officers killed this year
GROZNY. Oct 18 (Interfax) - One hundred and four Chechen police officers have died at the hands of militants since the beginning of the year, Chechen Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov told Interfax on Tuesday.
"In addition 230 officers were wounded during combat missions," he said.
"The figures indicate that the Chechen Interior Ministry is capable of energetically fighting militants and that its officers, notwithstanding all the dangers and risking their lives, resist terrorism daily," he said.
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