tween members of the illegal armed groups and federal servicemen in a house at 81 Nagornaya Street. As a result of the use of small arms and grenade dispensers, four members of the illegal armed group were killed. Since the house was set on fire, bodies were severely burnt; after an inspection by law-enforcement officers they were handed over to the local administration for burial.
18. On 9 March 2002 a group of servicemen of military unit No. 3228 at a checkpoint situated within three kilometres from Stariye Atagi was fired at from a car that approached the checkpoint. The servicemen fired back. The explosives contained in the car were blown up, the car was set on fire and the three members of an illegal armed group in it were killed. Their bodies were also severely burnt and handed over to the local administration for burial. An AKM machine gun without its wooden parts, RGD-5 grenades without fuses, a makeshift hand grenade launcher, and other components of AKM machine guns and cartridge cases were found in the car and seized.
19. After the operation had been completed, village residents lodged applications concerning the apprehension and subsequent disappearance of eleven residents of Stariye Atagi, including Mr Ismail Dzhamayev.
3. Relevant information disclosed in relation to the case
of Arzu Akhmadova and Others v. Russia, No. 13670/03
20. On 13 March 2002, after the special operation was over and the restrictions were lifted, the villagers brought all the unidentified corpses to Grozny. It appears that they did not manage to contact the authorities, and later that day they returned the bodies to Stariye Atagi.
21. On 14 or 15 March 2002 officers of the Grozny district office of the Interior (РОВД Грозненского района) took the corpses to the village of Tolstoy-Yurt intending to send them on to Mozdok for a forensic examination.
22. On 1 April 2002 D., an investigator from the Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic, delivered the bodies back to Stariye Atagi. The corpses were wrapped in bags and were decomposed. They remained unidentified. D. explained to the villagers that the prosecutor's office had insufficient funds to conduct the forensic examination of the corpses and that the refrigerators in the forensic examination department in which they had been kept had been out of order.
23. On 3 April 2002 the residents of Stariye Atagi buried the unidentified bodies.
B. The search for Mr Ismail Dzhamayev and the investigation
1. The parties' submissions in the present case
24. Immediately after Mr Ismail Dzhamayev had been apprehended, the applicants started searching for him. They lodged numerous applications with prosecutors of various levels, public bodies and regional administrative authorities. They also visited a number of State bodies. The applicants mainly received formal responses informing them that their requests had been forwarded to various prosecutor's offices for examination.
25. On 13 March 2002 the Prosecutor's Office of the Grozny District (прокуратура Грозненского района) instituted a criminal investigation under Article 105 § 2 (a) of the Criminal Code of Russia (murder of two or more persons) in respect of the disappearance of 13 residents of Stariye Atagi, including Mr Ismail Dzhamayev, between 6 and 11 March 2002. The file was assigned No. 56031.
26. According to the applicants, on an unspecified date Mr B. and his mother were questioned. The second applicant went for questioning together with them and the relevant records should be in the criminal file.
27. According to the Government, on unspecified dates two of the applicants were granted victim status in the proceedings.
28. On 5 April 2002 the local administration of Stariye Atagi (местная администрация села Старые
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