It became clear in a few hours that the conflict broke on the poor coordination of activities of police of Chechnya and Ingushetia used by relatives of detained Temurziyev to their advantage.
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A Car Thief Set Police against Police
Police officers of Ingushetia and Chechnya clashed yesterday on border of these two republics. Seven of them were killed in the fight and some two dozens were seriously wounded, including Buvadi Dakhiyev, deputy chief of Chechen OMON (special division of police). The conflict sparkled because of an authoritative car thief of Ingushetia, who was stealing the vehicles of foreign make in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. Ingush Senator Issa Kostoyev called on his nationals to continue fighting enforcement bodies of Chechnya and prevent their raids to Ingushetia.
Three busses full of OMON officers and investigators of Chechnya headed from Grozny to the Ingush village of Yandar at the daybreak Wednesday. The purpose of their trip to the neighboring republic was chasing the case-hardened car chief Gerikhan Temurziyev, who was said to be in hiding in that village.
According to investigators of Chechnya, Temurziyev is one of the leaders of the car thieves’ gang covering all Russia and focusing on the cars of foreign make.
En route to Yandar, the chief of Chechen unit called the chief of Yandar administration and was promised assistance.
The Chechen officers got Temurziyev without a hitch and turned their steps back to Chechnya. They were stopped at a checkpoint of administrative border (which they safely passed just an hour ago and where they were registered), ordered to show documents and go out of the busses for inspection.
A rather brief effort to have the whole thing out by mere swearing gave way to shooting in a few minutes. Top-ranked officers of police of both Chechnya and Ingushetia rushed to the place of the battle and were there in 10 to 20 minutes after the start of the conflict, to no avail though.
Seven police officers (six Chechens and one Ingush) were killed in the fight of nearly an hour; two dozens were severely wounded.
It became clear some time later that the conflict broke on the poor coordination of Chechen police and its Ingush counterpart used by relatives of detained Temurziyev to their advantage. Once the Chechen police left the house with Temurziyev, his wife and his brother called the Interior Ministry of Ingushetia. They said the unidentified armed people abducted their relative and were driving him to Chechnya. Absolutely unaware of the agreed action of police, the officer on duty called all checkpoints of Ingushetia ordering to search the busses of Chechnya.
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