In Kabardino-Balkaria, casualties of special operation are being identified

The process of identification is underway in Kabardino-Balkaria, where on February 11 in the vicinity of Nalchik seven persons were killed.

We remind you that yesterday at 2:00 p.m. a fight burst out in the area of Gerpegezh village, where seven persons were killed. A militiaman was wounded. According to preliminary information, leader of the grouping Zeitun Sultanov was identified among the casualties, who was suspected of murdering hunters and huntsmen in November 2007 and involvement in murder of Anatoly Kyarov, head of the UBOP of the MIA of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

“The bodies of the killed persons were brought to the morgue, and currently they are identified,” a source in the republic’s law enforcement bodies has reported.

The source has also reported that in the place of the warfare plenty of weapons, self-made explosives, grenades and ammunition were found.

So far, power agencies present no additional information.

Back on January 29, 2008, Yuri Tomchak, Minister of Internal Affairs of the KBR, said in the press conference that the investigation had established that the murders of Anatoly Kyarov, head of the UBOP of Kabardino-Balkaria, and nine hunters and huntsmen in the Chegem District were accomplished by one and the same group of militants – the Kabardino-Balkarian Jama’at.

We remind you that according to law enforcement bodies, about 50 persons are now searched in Kabardino-Balkaria. Among them, there are 11 suspects of involvement the armed attack on Nalchik in October 2005. All of them have been announced into international search.

See earlier reports: “Kabardino-Balkaria: seven casualties in special operation,” ““Memorial” presents a report on preconditions of armed revolt in Nalchik in 2005.”