Russian police arrest suspected Chechen militant on train
(AP)
Updated: 2006-01-12 09:10

Russian authorities detained a suspected Chechen militant accused of participating in attacks on police and soldiers serving in Chechnya, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.

The suspect, who was not identified, was arrested Tuesday on a passenger train headed from Voronezh to Moscow.

The Interior Ministry's Southern Russian office said the suspect was part of a rebel group that attacked law enforcement bodies in the Chechen village of Shalazhi.

Russian forces are fighting their second war in a decade against separatist Chechen rebels.

Also Wednesday, Chechen Prime Minister Sergei Abramov, who was severely injured in a road accident in November, was quoted by the news agency RIA-Novosti as saying he expects to be sufficiently recovered to return to work in February.

Abramov, the second-most senior official in Chechnya's Kremlin-backed government, was injured November 17 when the car in which he was traveling collided with a truck outside Moscow. Officials ruled out speculation that the collision was an attempted assassination.