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Russian police arrest suspected Chechen militant on train
(AP)
Updated: 2006-01-12 09:10
Russian authorities detained a suspected Chechen militant accused of
participating in attacks on police and soldiers serving in Chechnya, the
Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
The suspect, who was not identified, was arrested Tuesday on a passenger
train headed from Voronezh to Moscow.
The Interior Ministry's Southern Russian office said the suspect was part of
a rebel group that attacked law enforcement bodies in the Chechen village of
Shalazhi.
Russian forces are fighting their second war in a decade against separatist
Chechen rebels.
Also Wednesday, Chechen Prime Minister Sergei Abramov, who was severely
injured in a road accident in November, was quoted by the news agency
RIA-Novosti as saying he expects to be sufficiently recovered to return to work
in February.
Abramov, the second-most senior official in Chechnya's Kremlin-backed
government, was injured November 17 when the car in which he was traveling
collided with a truck outside Moscow. Officials ruled out speculation that the
collision was an attempted assassination.
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