Conflict fruit

One federal serviceman was wounded and, possibly, one Chechen rebel killed or seriously wounded in a combat between federal troops and a rebel group near Paraboch, Shelkovskaia district, at about 4.00 pm on 27 May, a source with Chechnya's law enforcement agencies told Caucasian Knot.

On the same day, a combat infantry vehicle triggered a bomb on the road from Oktiabrskoye to Mesker-Yurt, Kurchaloi-District. As a result, the vehicle took fire which led to an explosion of its munitions. One contract serviceman was seriously wounded in his arm. The vehicle was practically destroyed.

Law enforcement agents fired automatic weapons at a regular passenger bus in Chechnya in the afternoon today, an eyewitness told Caucasian Knot. It was about 2.00 pm, according to him. He says the new passenger bus was practically riddled with bullets.

"There were several law enforcers, most likely Kadyrovtsy (this is how members of the Chechen security service are called in the republic). There was no one in the bus, save for the driver, but he managed to jump out of it before the military started shooting," says the interlocutor.

The reason for firing at the bus is reported to be that the driver had overtaken their car at the entrance to Grozny.

The dead bodies of a Chechen police officer, Captain Rizvan Ashayev, and a local young woman were found in the boot of a VAZ-21099 car not far from school no 27 in the Ivanov community in Grozny's Staropromyslovskii district on 27 May, a source at Chechnya's Internal Affairs Ministry told Caucasian Knot.

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