Below is a summary of the main security-related events in the North Caucasus on December 27, 2005
* Chechen Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov said irreparable damage had been inflicted on illegal armed formations in 2005 and added that 306 suspected militants had been detained and 140 militants killed
* The Emergency Situations Ministry's southern regional center said another person had been hospitalized with convulsions in Chechnya
* Chechen law enforcement bodies said unidentified assailants had opened fire on a defense ministry serviceman in the Vedeno district and killed him
* Police said a suspected terrorist accomplice had been detained in the Chechen city of Khasavyurt
* Police said a cache of weapons and ammunition had been discovered in the Chechen capital of Grozny
