Two men of warlord Matsiev's gang have given up in the Shatoi district, and made statements concerning recent police and civilian kidnaps and murders in the Shali and Gudermes districts.
Federals raided a paramilitary base of the Magasa group, commanded by notorious warlord Shamil Basayev, and are blocking Gaziev's gang of six or seven.
16 makeshift explosive devices were detected in uninhabited highlands in the vicinity of Itum Kala and Shatoi.
Combined federal forces of the army, police, Federal Security Service and Chechen presidential guards are trying to track down the murderers of several policemen in the Gudermes district. A gang shot a divisional police inspector, April 13. Local people found another uniformed police officer, shot dead, the same night. The Nozhai Yurt police chief and four officers died in the same locality as two cars were ambushed on the highway.
The last day and night brought six arms cachets and 13 paramilitary bases and camps detected and ruined.
