21:19, 11 November 2005

Police station under attack all night

On the night of 11 November 2005, unidentified persons were shooting automatic weapons and grenade launchers in Elistanzhi, Vedeno district, at the local police station based in a former shop and at its premises. The shooting began in the evening on 10 November and continued until dawn on 11 November. None of the police officers or civilians suffered because of the shooting. The police hid in the basement of the station. Dwellers of nearby homesteads were also very scared with the developments and spent the night in the basements of their houses.

Window panes were broken and roofs were damaged in some homesteads during the shooting. At dawn on 11 November 2005, intensive shelling of the forest in the vicinity of Elistanzhi began from the disposition of federal forces, the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society reports.