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The arrested soldier explained that he was hunting birds. According to him, he hit the car where the deputy interior minister was by accident.

Militia Lieutenant Colonel Khakiyev's car was fired by unknown people in the afternoon when he was on his business trip in the Sunzhensky district, Ingushetia.

The commandant's office in a street corner in Grozny was bombed and shot by unidentified attackers at 10:53 p.m. on Sunday.

"The fact that large forces engaged in the operation in Dagestan have not succeeded in uncovering and destroying the militants for almost two weeks points that they are dealing with the people who are perfectly at home in the area and are supported by locals," Abubakar Makhmudov, an officer of Chechen law-enforcement agencies, holds.

On December 11, there was a skirmish in a many-storied building on Ordjonikidze Street in Malgobek. An accidental passer-by, Bekkhan B. Kartoyev, 1953, was killed as a result.

A landmine was activated in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny when a file of OMON (special tasks police platoon) officers was passing by.

The 25-year-old citizen of Sukhum, Tamaz Gogokhia, who was taken hostage by a Georgian gang on December 12, has been released.

The body of Gagida village administration head Abel Gogua, who disappeared on December 20, was found with traces of violent death on the border between the villages of Nanargali, the Gali district and Ganmukhuri, the Zugdidi district on December 21.

Chechen separatists who captured a hospital in the village of Shauri in the Tsuntinsky district of Dagestan have divided into three or four groups, which are moving away in the direction of Chechnya and Georgia.

According to preliminary information, the direct performers were three kamikaze women. Another woman is supposed to be an organizer, and the police are seeking for her now.

According to Deputy Prosecutor of Moscow Sergey Borisov, 11 people suffered. They all have been identified. One of the women who suffered in the terrorist act turned out to be a citizen of China.

Tengiz Khangoshvili, a member of Shota Chichiashvili's criminal gang, was arrested by officers of the State Security Ministry in the village of Kvemo Khalani in the Pankisi region on December 8. Khangoshvili was wanted in connection with the kidnapping of two Spanish businessmen in Tbilisi on November 20, 2000. The two men were held hostage for a year. The prisoner has declared himself guilty.

Larisa Yakushko, a citizen of Kislovodsk, died on Sunday, December 7, in the Essentuki City Hospital; another citizen of Kislovodsk, Aleksey Amelekhin, died in the same hospital on the night of December 7-8.

Yesterday, December 5, 42 people were killed and more than 100 passengers were wounded as a result of the explosion of a railway car in the vicinity of the Essentuki station.

35 people died at the site of the terrorist act, the other 7 died in a hospital.