Five are wounded in explosion in Chechnya

Five militants of the Interior Ministry of RF were wounded during  explosion of  an unknown explosive device in a woods area of the ​​Urus-Martan district of Chechnya and were  taken to hospital, their condition is stable.

"The wounded were evacuated from the forest to the city, they are in the hospital, in a stable condition," -RIA Novosti reports, citing a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic.

The incident occurred on the evening of February 28 in the neighboring of the village of Shalazhi during planned military search operations in the forested mountainous terrain. Militaries were injured by shrapnel.