Below is a summary of the main security-related events in the North Caucasus on November 9, 2005
* Five people were wounded and eight houses destroyed when unidentified assailants opened fire on a local family in the village of Starye Atagi not far from the capital of Chechnya, Grozny
* A cache of weapons and ammunition was discovered in the Urus-Martan region in central Chechnya
* Prosecutors in Kabardino-Balkaria launched criminal proceedings into the disappearance of Ruslan Nakhushev, the director of an Islamic research institute earlier accused of terrorism
* The trial of Nur-Magomed Khatuyev, a suspect in the June 1995 attack on the Russian city of Budyonnovsk that left 147 people dead, started in the Stavropol territory
* First Deputy Commander of the Interior Ministry Troops Col. Gen. Yevgeny Baryayev said 1,183 Interior Ministry troops had been killed since the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus started in 1999
* First Deputy Commander of the Russian Interior Ministry Troops Yevgeny Baryayev said all military commandants' offices in Chechnya had been transferred to the control of the Russian Interior Ministry troops
* The Supreme Court of Karachayevo-Cherkessia continued hearing a criminal case against Ali Kaitov and 15 accomplices, who are charged with killing seven residents of the republic in October 2004
* The Ingush Interior Ministry said a cache of weapons and ammunition had been discovered in the Sunzhensky region of Ingushetia near the border with Chechnya
* A border official said a total of 69 people who attempted to violate the border of the Russian republic of North Ossetia in cars or using fake IDs had been detained since the beginning of the year
* Police in the city of Pyatigorsk detained a group of people suspected of keeping a local citizen in a basement for 24 hours and extorting money from him
