23:20, 11 May 2011

Three soldiers wounded by explosions in Chechnya

On May 11, three servicemen were wounded by two explosions in the forest area in the Urus-Martan District of Chechnya, a source from law enforcement bodies reported.

According to his story, the first explosion of an unidentified device was triggered at 7:15 a.m. Moscow time several kilometres off the dwelling settlement of Roshni-Chu, Urus-Martan District. There, in a wooded area, servicemen of internal troops conducted their search and reconnaissance actions. A contract soldier, born in 1990, received a leg wound.

Later in the afternoon, at the distance of four kilometres from the same settlement, another explosion of an unidentified device happened. As a result, two militaries - a lieutenant, deputy group commander, born in 1987, and a contract sergeant, born in 1979, were wounded and hospitalized, the RIA "Novosti" reports.

Let us remind you that on May 4, at the distance of ten kilometres from Roshni-Chu servicemen of internal troops confronted a group of militants; and three soldiers were wounded in a skirmish. Later, militants were searched by a helicopter, but with no success.