Large Quantities of Explosives Found in Chechnya

Over the past 24 hours more than 250 kg of explosives were found by the law-enforcers in the course of the operational-search activities in Chechnya.

As RIA Novosti was told in the Interior Ministry of Chechnya on Monday, on the day before the personnel of an operational group of the Interior Ministry of Russia and servicemen of the 46th Interior troops brigade found 16 kg of plastit in a cache in a deserted house on the Profsoyuznaya Street in the Leninsky district of Grozny.

The personnel of the criminal militia service of the Interior Ministry of Russia jointly with servicemen of the Interior troops and of the Federal Security Service Directorate for Chechnya confiscated 150 kg of trotyl from a deserted house at Bachi-Yurt settlement of the Kurchaloyevsky district. The local militia later found four bags containing 100 kg of plastit in a heap of gravel not far from a household-goods shop at Bachi-Yurt.