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URGENT: Underground bunker with communications network discovered in Chechen village

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NOVYE ATAGI (Chechnya), June 17 (RIA Novosti) - An underground bunker with a communications network was discovered in a house where militants had been hiding during a special operation in the Chechen village of Novye Atagi.

"Specialists are getting ready to blow up the foundation of the building to let troops enter the underground premises," a participant in the special operation told RIA Novosti.

According to him, the dwelling house in Novye Atagi was a real fortress. "A tank had to shoot three times to break the meter thick fence," he said.

The owner of the destroyed building gave the plan of the building and underground communications to the law enforcement bodies, however, the plan does not correspond to what we saw, he added.

The special operation in Novye Atagi (the Shalinsky district) began yesterday. Militants were blocked in the building on Thursday.

The Chechen Interior Ministry said: "The militants put up armed resistance. 140 servicemen of the Russian Interior Ministry and ten armored vehicles were sent to Novye Atagi."

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