October 21 and 22 near the village of Balta in Znaur district of South Ossetia the border guards of the FSB Border Control Agency of Russia in South Ossetia discovered two caches of weapons and ammunition.
"In one of the caches were two grenades to the rifle-attached grenade launcher and four projectiles to 30 -mm automatic gun, in the other one - a 16 -gauge double-barreled shotgun, three F-1 grenades with fuses and more than 600 cartridges for small arms. The content of the caches were seized by employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic", - said a representative of the Border Control Agency.
According to the press service official, for the last week have also been detained four violators of the state border near the villages of Artsev, Disev and Tsinagar.
"Two cases of violation of the state border have been connected with the illegal goods transportation across the state border of the Republic of South Ossetia, and near the village of Tsinagar – with the illegal crossing of the state border."
The press service official has noted that a violation of the state border of South Ossetia near the village of Disev was recorded by a video-lokator system "Rubezh," established along the border in the flat part of Tskhinval district.
