06 August 2007, 14:31
Dzhamalkhanov's militants searched in Chechnya
The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed at Chechen law enforcement bodies that a special operation continues in the Vedeno District of the Chechen Republic aimed to search the militants who made an attack on the Tsa-Vedeno village, as a result of which several persons were lost. Supposedly, the group of attackers comprised ten militants.
A source in the Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has told that the bandit group "at night on Sunday in Tsa-Vedeno burnt down three houses and shelled a car with three persons in it, including a baby. It has been established that the group was headed by Turpal Dzhamalkhanov, a Tsa-Vedeno native of 17, who is in federal search for committing a whole range of crimes.
In the village, the bandits have burnt down the houses, in which Saikhan Gadaev, a serviceman of the "Sever" (North) battalion of the Special Troops of Russian MIA, and Yusup Satovkhanov, operations officer of the Vedeno Frontier District Interior Department (RPOVD), lived. Before doing it, they drove all the folk out and beat several persons who tried to interfere into their plans."
A day earlier, on August 4, in the neighbouring Shali District of Chechnya, militants shelled from automatic weapons and grenade launchers the military commandant's office. None of the attackers was also detained there.
