04 July 2009, 17:00
Sunzha District of Ingushetia is blocked by power agents
Additional militia forces from Chechnya were deployed in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia. Measures of operative response have been strengthened in the district; and a broad-scale special operation was launched.
According to Rashid Nurgaliev, Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia, the Sunzha District of Ingushetia is now "the venue of a broad-scale complex special operation aimed to liquidate militants, and the district is blocked," the "Interfax" Agency reports.
Today in the morning, in the course of an armed collision of militants and militiamen, the local gas main, which supplied gas to the villages of Chemulga and Arshty, was damaged. Now, the gas supply is stopped because of the leakage, the ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Ministry for Emergencies of Ingushetia.
