Local Chechen residents claimed the dead were the victims of the federal troops. Prosecutors refuted such conclusions as premature and insisted thorough investigation was needed to establish the guilty. Before the war broke loose in the Republic of Chechnya in early 90s, the Zdorovye dacha settlement had been a comfortable place to live for local party bosses. As of today, there is not much left of the Soviet-era luxury. The settlement is ruined and cottages are burnt.
Local residents prefer to stay away from the area, for it is said to be loaded with land mines.
But on Saturday a resident of Grozny, Chechen Sultan Moussayev came to the devastated settlement in the nearly hopeless search of his missing child and found the remains of his body. The remains could not be retrieved, because the area and the grave were mined. So he turned to army engineers and to police for assistance. It emerged that the whole area was deluged with explosives. In the course of the mine clearing, Federal military men discovered ten more dead bodies.