CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS
16/9/2005
Attackers kill police officer in Dagestan
A traffic police officer stopped a Gazel vehicle for check at the Rubezh (“Border”) checkpoint near Kizilyurt (37 km north of Makhachkala) at about 8.00 pm MSK yesterday.
The two men that got out the vehicle fired automatic weapons at the policemen. Two officers sustained wounds, and one of the attackers was killed, while the other managed to escape. Gazel passengers, three women and one man, were also wounded.
One wounded police officer, Mukhazhir Gajiakhmayev, died of wounds in hospital later, Dagestan’s Internal Affairs Ministry told Caucasian Knot.
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