16 August 2003, 15:30
Militiamen were fired from antitank rocket launcher
On August 13 the PPS (patrol and sentry service) post "Orpheus", located on the administrative border of North Osetia with Ingushetia not far from the village of Kurtag, was fired from an antitank rocket launcher. Two shots were made from the direction of the neighboring republic from a forest belt. Representatives of the Prigorodny Interior Department and the prosecutor's office, a mobile detachment of the Russian Interior Ministry immediately arrived to the place of the incident.
A concrete block that fell of the first shell pressed down Junior Sergeant Shavlokhov. He was hospitalized with a double leg fracture. The PPS house is heavily destroyed.
Source: North Osetia newspaper
