Murderers of Chechen civilians were killed
Yesterday in Grozny, two militants were killed during a special operation. They are suspected of a series of murders of residents of the capital of Chechnya that occurred last weekend. The bodies of four women and six men were discovered in the last three days, mostly in the Leninsky district of the city. Most died from shots to the head, and two had their throats cut.
All those killed were civilians, eight Russians and two Chechens. It is noteworthy that they were not famous people or high-ranking officials at all. One of the women, for example, worked as a cleaner in the military commandant’s office, and the other worked as a laboratory assistant at an institute. According to representatives of the Chechen prosecutor's office, after officials began to be carefully guarded, the militants decided to take revenge indiscriminately on all employees of government agencies.
In the basement where the militants were hiding, the special forces found a light machine gun, a Makarov pistol and a lot of ammunition. It is now being verified whether the residents of Grozny were killed with these weapons. It is possible that the militants had accomplices and an entire gang was operating in the city.

Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 49 dated March 21, 2001, p. 3