"Law enforcers spotted an improvised explosive device planted in a drain pipe under the federal road Kavkaz near the Khalima cafe in the outskirts of the village of Barsuki in the Nazran district. The device contained three rounds for the RPG grenade-launcher and an F-1 hand grenade," the spokesman said.

According to him, investigators established that the explosive device had been made and planted by members of the bandit group led by Umarov.

"They planned to blow it up this weekend when the cafe had the most visitors," he stressed.

In addition, law enforcers detected an arms cache hidden in the western outskirts of Nazran.

"The militants had set up an arms cache in the woods near the Alkhanchur canal. The cache contained about 2,000 rounds of 5.45 mm and 7.62 mm ammunition, F-1 hand grenades and five 200g TNT blocks," the ROH spokesperson said.

Tentatively, investigators assume that the cache had also been set up by the militants from the bandit group led by Umarov, the spokesperson pointed out.

Source: Novosti