IED defused in Dagestani village - source
MOSCOW. Jan 23 (Interfax) - Bomb disposal experts have defused an improvised explosive device (IED) in a Dagestani village, where a group of gunmen was killed in mid-January, a law enforcement source told Interfax on Thursday.
Special services discovered an IED equivalent to 10 kilos of TNT in a house in the village of Karlanyurt, the Khasavyurt district of Dagestan, on Thursday morning, the source said.
Experts defused the bomb, which was made of a 10-liter metal bucket filled with an explosive substance and a 400-gram TNT block, he said.
The officially unemployed owner of the house has been detained, and a criminal case has been opened against him.
It was reported earlier that four gunmen had been killed in a counterterrorist operation in Karlanyurt in mid-January. Three members of security forces were also killed and five others injured. Two explosive devices were defused at the scene of the incident, and two other IEDs were later discovered in the house of one of the gunmen in the village of Endirei.