"Ten homemade explosive devices were seized from militants. They had Avdorkhanov's instructions to perpetrate a series of terrorist acts in Chechnya and Dagestan," Chechen Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov told RIA Novosti.
Akhmed Avdorkhanov's gang is involved in grave crimes, terrorist and sabotage acts against authorities and federal power structures, the ministry said. The ministry did not give the names of the detainees.
There were no victims during the operation, the ministry added.
According to Ruslan Alkhanov, the detainees are residents of the village of Nizhny Gerzel located near the Chechen-Dagestani border. Mines, grenades, ammunition and electric detonators were also seized from the militants, he said.
The detainees already perpetrated a series of terrorist acts in Chechnya, Alkhanov stressed.
"The search for their accomplices is currently underway," he added.
