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Militants' camp found in Kabardino-Balkaria
MOSCOW, February 24 (Itar-Tass) - Special task forces in the Elbrus
district, Kabardino-Balkaria, found a militants' camp containing police uniforms and weapons.
"Special task units found in the highland as well-hidden and
well-equipped militants' base for eight people. The base could accommodate gunmen in the winter," spokesman for the National Antiterrorist Committee Nikolai Sintsov told Itar-Tass.
"The base contained large stocks of food, police uniforms, a homemade
bomb and a Kalashnikov machine-gun," Sintsov said.
The operation to detect and destroy militants continues. There has
been no precise information about the casualties among the gunmen.
Reports said one special task force police officer was killed and five
servicemen were wounded in the special operation against militants in
highland Kabardino-Balkaria. Also, on Tuesday night, a Federal Security Colonel was wounded, law-enforcement bodies in the North Caucasus Federal District (SKFO) told Tass.
"Fighting continued throughout the night," a high-placed police
officer said, "thermal imaging devices were used to track the militants."
He did not rule out that federal forces were confronting not one gang,
but several, numbering five to eight gunman each.
Speaking about the casualties on the part of federal forces, the
Interior Ministry representative said the special task force police
officer was killed and his five colleagues were wounded when the militants detected and shelled a recon group. The militants fired from a height and had an advantage.
Mortars and aviation will be used at the targets in the mountains, he
said.
Law-enforcement bodies said "there is no precise information as to
whether the militants sustained losses. If some of them were killed, the bodies have been taken away."
An armed group numbering up to seven gunmen opened fire at
law-enforcement personnel on a countryside road linking the Baksan and
Chegem Gorges near the highland village of Bylym, Elbrus district, at
around 17:00, Moscow time, on Tuesday.
The regional department of the Investigation Committee opened a
criminal case over attempted murder of law-enforcement personnel and
illegal turnover of weapons.
Meanwhile, Kabardino-Balkaria law-enforcement bodies have not
confirmed the information about the bombing of the area where the
militants might be hiding.
"A helicopter was only used for aerial reconnaissance," a police
official told Tass.
"As the federal forces were pursuing the gunmen, they used automatic
weapons and mortars," the source said.
Updated reports identified the fatality as K.B.Aliyev, a servicemen
from interior troops unit 3787 billeted in Nalchik-20.
"The group of investigators sent to the scene does not confirm the
information about the killed militants," an investigator said.
district, Kabardino-Balkaria, found a militants' camp containing police uniforms and weapons.
"Special task units found in the highland as well-hidden and
well-equipped militants' base for eight people. The base could accommodate gunmen in the winter," spokesman for the National Antiterrorist Committee Nikolai Sintsov told Itar-Tass.
"The base contained large stocks of food, police uniforms, a homemade
bomb and a Kalashnikov machine-gun," Sintsov said.
The operation to detect and destroy militants continues. There has
been no precise information about the casualties among the gunmen.
Reports said one special task force police officer was killed and five
servicemen were wounded in the special operation against militants in
highland Kabardino-Balkaria. Also, on Tuesday night, a Federal Security Colonel was wounded, law-enforcement bodies in the North Caucasus Federal District (SKFO) told Tass.
"Fighting continued throughout the night," a high-placed police
officer said, "thermal imaging devices were used to track the militants."
He did not rule out that federal forces were confronting not one gang,
but several, numbering five to eight gunman each.
Speaking about the casualties on the part of federal forces, the
Interior Ministry representative said the special task force police
officer was killed and his five colleagues were wounded when the militants detected and shelled a recon group. The militants fired from a height and had an advantage.
Mortars and aviation will be used at the targets in the mountains, he
said.
Law-enforcement bodies said "there is no precise information as to
whether the militants sustained losses. If some of them were killed, the bodies have been taken away."
An armed group numbering up to seven gunmen opened fire at
law-enforcement personnel on a countryside road linking the Baksan and
Chegem Gorges near the highland village of Bylym, Elbrus district, at
around 17:00, Moscow time, on Tuesday.
The regional department of the Investigation Committee opened a
criminal case over attempted murder of law-enforcement personnel and
illegal turnover of weapons.
Meanwhile, Kabardino-Balkaria law-enforcement bodies have not
confirmed the information about the bombing of the area where the
militants might be hiding.
"A helicopter was only used for aerial reconnaissance," a police
official told Tass.
"As the federal forces were pursuing the gunmen, they used automatic
weapons and mortars," the source said.
Updated reports identified the fatality as K.B.Aliyev, a servicemen
from interior troops unit 3787 billeted in Nalchik-20.
"The group of investigators sent to the scene does not confirm the
information about the killed militants," an investigator said.
