Warlord Ganishev assassinated in Grozny

On Febryary 16, 2007 the leader of a group of Chechen militants operating in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny was killed in the Chechen capital.

"The emir of the Staropromyslovsky district's jamaat, Ganishev, was killed during a special operation in Grozny," Captain Magomed Daudov, chief of the Chechen special task police headquarters, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying.

Another militant was killed and one more was captured. Two policemen were wounded in the operation.

"Ganishev and his fellow militants barricaded themselves in an apartment in a multi-storey house in the Mayakovsky settlement. They had large amounts of ammunition and offered fierce resistance, " Daudov said. "Kalashnikov assault rifles, mobile telephones, radio sets, ammunition, grenades and medicines were found on the scene," he said.

According to Daudov, since January, Chechen police have killed eight prominent militants.

The militants killed in Grozny had been involved in a string of serious crimes, the Russian Federal Security Service Chechen Department said in a statement. "Ganishev is responsible for murder, kidnappings and terrorist acts against civilians and servicemen. Investigators are working at the scene. The bandits are being identified," the statement said.

Source: Xinhua

Agentura.Ru March 2011