23:00, 24 August 2009

Teenager wounded by explosion in Chechnya

On August 23, in the submontane Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya, a local minor was wounded by explosion of unidentified ordnance.

"Yesterday, in the village of Stary Achkhoy, in the area of the Nuradilova Street, a teenager was wounded by an explosion. The boy was hospitalized with fragmental wounds and burns," said a source from the Chechen MIA and added: "Under the available data, an explosion of a shell or some other ordnance happened in a heap of metal scrap. Now experts try to find out the reason of the explosion, type and power of the ordnance and how it could get there."

See earlier reports: "Chechnya: a serviceman killed and four other wounded in a clash," "MIA: suicide bombers who made explosions in Grozny identified," "Militiaman wounded by a mine explosion in Chechen mountains."

Author: Muslim Ibragimov

Source: CK correspondent