SRChF/CP: Press release No. 373 (attack on Russian APC, kidnappings)

INFORMATION CENTER OF THE SOCIETY OF RUSSIAN-CHECHEN FRIENDSHIP

Press release No. 373, March 11, 2003

Federal APT blew up on landmine.

Kidnapped resident of Serzhen-yurt was found in Grozny.

Resident of the village Goiskoe was kidnapped.

Report from the Chechen Republic

Achkhoi-Martan district

Federal APC blew up on a landmine

On March 10, 2003 not far from the settlement Shaami-Yurt of Achkhoi-Martan district a federal APC blew up on a landmine. According to witnesses, several Russian soldiers in a very bad state were delivered to the main federal military base in Khankala, where a military hospital is located.

(From our correspondent.).

Grozny

Kidnapped resident of Serzhen-yurt was found in Grozny

On March 8, 2003 on the outskirts of Grozny local residents foundSuleimanov Sultan Dikaevich (born in the village Serzhen-Yurt in 1949) and took him to hospital. Suleimanov had been subject to cruel beating and medics consider his state to be very serious.

On March 7, 2003 Sultan Suleimanov and his 24-year-old son Abdul-Malik Suleimanov were seized and driven in the unknown direction by people Arrived in the car "UAZ" of the grey color. The kidnappers blew up the door of Suleimanov's house with a grenade. At present no information has been received about the life of Abdul-Malik Suleimanov.

Urus-Martan district

Resident of the village Goiskoe was kidnapped

On March 6, 2003 at 03.00 a.m. in the village Goiskoe of Urus-Martan district unknown armed people kidnapped Mamakaev Edik Sultanovich (1962).
The kidnappers in masks and camouflage broke into the house, seized the man and without letting dress up threw him into the car "UAZ" and drove away in the unknown direction. In the morning relatives of the kidnapped addressed to the head of the village administration and district militia officer with a request to assist in search of Mamakaev. The place of his location still has not been discovered.

Edik Mamakaev has three daughters. The eldest, aged 12, studies at school. Mamakaev divorced his wife and brings up the children alone. According to neighbors, Edik and his brother Ilyas have been occupied with their household and never took part in military operations. In December 2002 Russian soldiers detained and drove away Edik's younger brother Ilyas Mamakaev, born in 1982. Later, in the middle of February, his body was found not far from the village Gikalo in the forest belt along the road Rostov-Baku.

(From our correspondent.).

Editor in chief Stanislav Dmitriyevsky.
Editor of this edition Oksana Bazhina.

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