Attacks on commandant's offices in Starye Atagi and Chiri-Yurt, shelling of villages and large-scale theft of money, indiscriminate fire on houses in Duba-Yurt
October 16, 2001 *** On the night of October 16, in the villages of Starye Atagi and the village of Chiri-Yurt, attacks occurred on the POM (or, as local residents call them, commandant’s offices). The number of attackers is unknown. In response, the military subjected these villages to artillery fire, as well as the neighboring ones: Novye Atagi and Duba-Yurt.