Two police officers of the Russian occupation authorities were killed and five were wounded as a result of an armed attack on a traffic police unit in Karachay-Cherkessia. According to the press service of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs, police officers on duty in the village of Mara-Ayagy near Karachaevsk were attacked at about 23:20 Moscow time on 28 April.
“Having driven up to a temporary post in a VAZ-2109 car, they threw an explosive device towards the police and opened fire with automatic weapons. The police officers returned fire at the attackers, and an explosive device went off on one of the attackers,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.
During the clash, two policemen from the Kurgan region, who were in Karachay-Cherkessia on a business trip, were killed. Two traffic police officers and an employee of the Russian Guard from Karachay-Cherkessia, as well as an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs from the Kurgan region, were wounded. Five of the attackers were killed and several improvised explosive devices were found in their possession.
Four injured employees were hospitalized.
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