MOSCOW, June 16 (NNN-TASS) – Two police officers and one civilian were injured, in an exchange of gunfire in the southwest of Moscow on Monday, the Russian capital’s police said in a statement.
“Today (yesterday), in the area of house 156 on Leninsky Avenue, traffic police officers stopped a taxi for violating traffic rules. A passing citizen fired at the police officers allegedly from a traumatic weapon, as a result of which the two policemen were injured,” it said in a statement.
The wounded policemen used service firearms to shoot at the attacker, injuring him and having him detained, the statement said.
Currently, a group of investigators and policemen are working at the scene of the incident, establishing its circumstances, it added.
The Russian Investigative Committee said, in a separate statement, it had opened a criminal case on the grounds of an encroachment on the life of law enforcement officers.– NNN-TASS
