Murder attempt on Chechen policemen might be revenge

Unidentified people organized an attempt on some representatives of Chechnya's Ministry of Internal Affairs in Orjonikidzevskaia, Sunzha district, Ingushetia, on June 12. An explosive device equivalent to one kilogram of trinitrotoluene was planted at the side of the road at the exit from Orjonikidzevskaia. It went off the moment a column of vehicles with Chechen police officers was going by. The explosion resulted in one of the vehicles partially damaged. No one was injured among the policemen.

The people from the Sunzha district prosecutor's office who conduct investigation into the explosion in Orjonikidzevskaia do not rule out that the murder attempt on the Chechen police officers on June 12 might be a kind of revenge of rebels for their killed associates.

Caucasian Knot's correspondent managed to find out that officers of the Urus-Martan District Division of Internal Affairs that day had conducted a special operation to detain members of illegal armed units in one of the compact residence places of Chechen refugees in Ingushetia. Three young men were killed in the course of the "clean-up" in the Rassvet compact residence place in Orjonikidzevskaia, according to tenants of the camp.

"A group of armed people in masks burst in the temporary accommodation point in the afternoon on June 12," a representative of the Rassvet camp administration says. "Seeing the military, three young guys (aged about eighteen or twenty) ran and fire was at once opened on them. One of them was torn into pieces by a grenade explosion. The other two were also wounded, but still alive. Running up, the military men killed them, too, and then they left, taking the guys' bodies with them."