In Grozny, two militants were killed during the arrest, who opened fire on policemen, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Chechnya, Magomed Deniyev.
He said that "the night before, during the operational-search activities in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny, when trying to detain law enforcement agencies, he offered armed resistance and an unknown man was killed by return fire." "He had a PM pistol with him, as well as a bag with two plastic bottles filled with explosives and striking elements," the representative of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs noted.
And in the Zavodskoy district of the Chechen capital, on the territory of a former chemical plant, policemen killed another militant who offered armed resistance during an attempt to detain him. A Sechkin automatic pistol, five magazines for it and 35 rounds of 9 mm caliber were confiscated from him.