13 arms-caches discovered in Chechnya over the past 24 hours

13 arms-caches with arms and ammunition were discovered in Chechnya over the past 24 hours by the servicemen of the Interior Affairs bodies in Chechnya.

Five machine-guns, three pistols, a grenade launcher, two hunting rifles, two sawn-off hunting rifles, over 5,000 bullets, 27 grenades, 67 cartridges for grenade launchers, 22 shells, 11 mines, 5 self-made explosive devices, 0,5kg of plastic explosives and over 2kg of TNT were confiscated all in all over the past 24 hours in Chechnya, the Operative Headquarters on Control of Anti-terrorist Operation in the North Caucasus disclosed.

Persons involved in the organization of arms-caches are being searched for.

Over the past 2 days 27 illegal oil-refineries have been discovered and disassembled, 5 fuel tankers have been arrested at the checkpoints, and over 20 metric tons of oil have been confiscated, the Headquarters reported.