A convicted member of the Chechen gangs Basayev and Khattab escaped from a hospital in Astrakhan

Magomed Alkhanov, who was a member of the Basayev and Khattab gangs, escaped from a hospital in Astrakhan. About it togethert department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs about the region.

“Alkhanov, born in 1982, who escaped from custody from the department of the psychiatric hospital on October 26, was wanted,” the message says.

In the Astrakhan hospital, he underwent a medical examination.

Alkhanov was detained this summer. He was held guilty in the case of an armed attack. Investigators believed that on February 29, 2000, as part of a gang under the general leadership of Basayev and Khattab, he attacked servicemen of the 6th company of the 104th regiment of the 76th Pskov division of the Airborne Forces. The attack took place in the mountains near the village of Ulus-Kert, Shatoisky District, Chechnya. As a result, 84 servicemen were killed and four were injured of varying severity.

Earlier, Alkhanov was convicted under the article on banditry.