Three people were abducted and two, including a schoolboy, disappeared in
Chechnya on Thursday.
Local government sources have reported that gunmen entered the apartment
of Magomet Dzhalatkhanov in Grozny's Oktyabrsky district and forcibly took
him away on Thursday night. On Grozny's Lenin Street, gunmen posing as police
officers abducted Ramzan Izhayev, a laboratory worker at the local Pedagogical
Institute. Musa Moltygov was abducted in the village of Novyi Sharoi. Third
grade student Dzhabrail Bashtarov has not been seen since he left for school.
Luiza Amayeva, a teenager, disappeared in Grozny district.