The names of two policemen killed during an attack on a traffic police post have been named in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic

In Karachay-Cherkessia, two policemen were killed and four more were injured. An armed attack on a traffic police squad occurred at night. Five attackers were killed, the local Ministry of Internal Affairs reports.

On the night of April 29, unknown persons drove a VAZ-2109 to a police post near the village of Mara Ayagy, 60 km south of Cherkessk. They threw an explosive device and started shooting from machine guns. The police returned fire and a bomb went off on one of the attackers.

Two police officers died on the spot, four were injured and were taken to hospital.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Karachay-Cherkessia named the names of the dead traffic police officers who arrived on a business trip from the Kurgan region. This is the deputy head of the Shchuchansky police department of the city of Kurgan, Lieutenant Colonel of the internal service Anton Valikov and the driver of the police department No. 1 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Kurgan, foreman Andrey Artamonov.

The KCR is still looking for five men suspected of killing two policemen on April 21. Then the attack took place in the “Lower Market” area in Karachaevsk. Unknown people shot the security forces and stole their service weapons.

The suspects are 26-year-old Ruslan Elkanov, 29-year-old Kazbek Dzhazaev, 34-year-old Vladimir Averyanov, 35-year-old Ruslan Semenov and 25-year-old Akhmat Elkanov.

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