12:08, 8 April 2017

Two policemen killed in Ingushetia

Two inspectors of the road-and-patrol service (known as DPS) were killed after a police patrol car was shelled from automatic weapons in Malgobek. This was reported by the Department for Ingushetia of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

According to the ICRF's Ingush Department, today, at about 1:30 a.m. Moscow time, "in Promyshlennaya Street in Malgobek, unidentified people fired many shots from firearm automatic weapons to two DPS inspectors, who were travelling in their police service car."

"As a result, the policemen got injuries of various degrees of severity. They died at the hospital from the injuries. Besides, the car caught fire," reports the website of the ICRF's Ingush Department.

In Ingushetia, law enforcers are engaged in carrying out "a complex of operational measures and investigative actions aimed at detaining criminals."

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.