Suspect
of Involvement in Terrorist Act at Grozny Stadium Detained
GROZNY
(RIA Novosti) - A militant suspected of involvement in the terrorist
act on May 9 at the Dinamo stadium in Grozny was detained in the
Urus-Martan district of Chechnya, a statement from the regional
operational staff in the North Caucasus reads.
"He is
one of the construction workers born in 1967," the statement
reads further.
According
to the document, in the course of the investigation measures with
the detainee it was established that he had been an active participant
of illegal armed formations. "In 1996 he was a member of
the illegal armed formation under the command of the so-called
field commander Bibulat Khasakhanov," the statement reads.
Currently,
the detainee is being checked for involvement in the terrorist
attack in Grozny on May 9.
Earlier a
source in the Chechen Interior Ministry told RIA Novosti that
three people were being checked for involvement in the terrorist
attack at the Dinamo stadium.
"Servicemen
of the Gudermes regional interior department detained Saipudi
Yusupov from the village of Shali, as well as Abubakar Muchiyev
and Vakhid Shamayev, who are being checked for involvement in
the terrorist attack at the Dinamo stadium in Grozny," the
source disclosed. According to the source, Muchiyev and Shamayev
are also suspected of murdering the administration head of the
Komsomolskoye village.
Moreover,
in mid-May another construction worker suspected of involvement
in the terrorist act was detained in the Urus-Martan district
of Chechnya. "Policemen detained in the village of Alkhazurovo
Lom-Ali Chupayev, who participated in the construction works at
the Dinamo stadium in Grozny," said the source.
The explosive
device went off at the Dinamo stadium in Grozny on May 9 during
the concert dedicated to the Victory Day. Six people were killed
as a result of the blast - Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov, Chairman
of the Chechen State Council Khusein Isayev, journalist Adlan
Khasanov, two Kadyrov's security guards and an 8-year-old girl.
Colonel-General Valery Baranov, the Commander of the Joint Group
of Forces in the North Caucasus, received grave wounds.