The Russian Investigative Committee told Sputnik on Monday that it had launched a criminal case over a series of attacks on police officers in the Chechen Republic.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 20th August, 2018) The Russian Investigative Committee told Sputnik on Monday that it had launched a criminal case over a series of attacks on police officers in the Chechen Republic.
"Criminal proceedings have been launched under the article 317 of the Russian Criminal Code on an attempted murder of a law enforcement officer after police officers were attacked in Chechnya," the Investigative Committee's press service said.
Earlier in the day, the republics Ministry of Internal Affairs said that two unidentified knife-wielding men had wounded two policemen while trying to enter a police building in the Shalinsky district of Chechnya, but were killed by the law enforcement.
Moreover, a source told Sputnik that an unknown suicide attacker perpetrated an assault on traffic police in the Mesker-Yurt village near the regional capital Grozny on Monday. No law enforcement officers were injured in the attack, according to the source.
On the same day, in central Grozny, one police officer was killed in a shooting, the source added. Meanwhile, in the south of the city, a policeman was hospitalized after a car, which attempted to enter a checkpoint without undergoing security checks, drove over him. A blast also took place during the incident.
