27 August 2003, 14:07
Car with riot policemen from Tambov was undermined
One serviceman died and three received wounds as a result of the undermining of federal forces' car in the southwest of Chechnya.
As it was reported at the local regional interior department, yesterday the armored UAZ-469 car that was carrying riot policemen from Tambov hit a high-capacity radio-controlled landmine planted on the roadside. The incident occurred on the road Katar-Yurt - Achkhoy-Martan. Injured soldiers were hospitalized.
According to the words of a local police officer, another explosive assembly was found not far from the place of undermining. A group of field engineers was sent to the site of occurrence. Movement along the road has been interrupted.
Source: ITAR-TASS News Agency
