Police Confiscate Large Amount Of Arms And Munitions In Chechnya On Tuesday

Police forces in Chechnya on Tuesday carried out 17 investigation and preventive operations. They checked 34,350 citizens and 20,713 cars and trucks and revealed 438 administrative infringements of the law, a Chechen police official told RIA Novosti on Wednesday. Police confiscated a grenade launcher, three shotguns, a mortar, a TT pistol, a Strela portable air defence missile system, 12 artillery shells, 21 mines, 140 rounds for a grenade launcher, 35 grenades, two electric detonators, 3,663 cartridges, and over three kilograms of explosives. Besides, 23 mini-oil refineries which operated illegally and four home-made bombs were destroyed.