| On Saturday, a number of armed clashes were recorded in Chechnya, as a result of which several people were killed and injured. According to the administration of the Vedeno district, at about 22.00 a group of unknown people numbering about ten people entered the village of Tsa-Vedeno and set fire to three households. “The households belonged to the detective officer of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Vedeno district, senior lieutenant Yusup-Khadzhi Satovkhanov, and a serviceman of the “North” battalion, Saikhan Gatsayev,” the administration said. A little later, 500 meters from Tsa-Vedeno, a burned-out Mercedes car was discovered on the highway, in which were the bodies of two men and a child. “It has been established that this is Akhmed Eshiev, a resident of Tsa-Vedeno, who recently lived in Nalchik, and his three-year-old son Arthur,” the administration said. “The third person killed, according to preliminary data, is the head of the legal department of one of the construction companies, Zelimkhan Dzhabirov, born in 1974.” According to operational data, the murder and arson of the car were committed by the same group of militants who burned down the residential houses of a policeman and a serviceman. As it turned out, that day Akhmed Eshiev, with his son and a friend, went in his car to visit relatives in Tsa-Vedeno. Yesterday morning, police and special forces units were deployed to the village and began combing the area in search of militants. As reported in the joint press center of the operational headquarters of Chechnya, according to operational data, the attack on Tsa-Vedeno was carried out by a bandit group led by 17-year-old local resident Turpali Dzhamalkhanov, who is wanted for murders and attacks on law enforcement officers. Around the same time, in the vicinity of the town of Shali, according to Interfax, two local residents were wounded. According to preliminary data, two men were following in a car, and at 21.30, when it was pouring rain in Shali, their engine stalled. “The friends stopped in front of a technical station, 150 meters from the military commandant’s office, to repair a car,” said the local administration. - At that moment, as the victims explain, they heard two or three pops, similar to shots from an under-barrel grenade launcher, which were heard at the gate of the military commandant’s office. One of the grenades exploded five meters from the men, as a result both received shrapnel wounds.” The incident is being investigated by an operational investigation team. In addition, on Saturday in the Achkhoy-Martan region, two militants were killed in a shootout with police officers. “Not far from the village of Stary Achkhoi, in the forest, police officers noticed the secret movement of militants,” the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. - When asked to surrender, they opened fire. During the clash, both militants were killed and their identities are being established. As a result of the explosion of a grenade thrown by militants, the battalion commander of the Achkhoy-Martan District Department of Internal Affairs and a policeman of the patrol service were concussed. The killed bandits were found with two Kalashnikov assault rifles.” Yesterday, a combing of the area was also carried out in the area of the clash to search for possible accomplices of the militants. Anna ZOTOVA | |
