 One badly wounded OMON officer was also found alive three days after the ambush.The rebels said they executed nine of their prisoners, publicly shooting them on the morning of 4 April 2000.According to the statement, the prisoners were shot because the Russians had turned down an offer to exchange them for a tank unit commander Yuri Budanov, who was arrested on the charges of raping and killing an 18-year-old Chechen woman Elza Kungayeva.