NALCHIK, April 7 One of the gang members wanted for attacks on law enforcers in Ingushetia has been detained and investigations are underway, the operational headquarters of the region reported.
On Wednesday evening, in the village of Zyazikov-Yurt in the Malgobek district, during the counter-terrorist operation (CTO), security forces discovered a group of militants. When they tried to detain them, they resisted and opened fire on law enforcement officers with automatic weapons, the operational headquarters of the region reported. Three police officers were killed and eight more were injured of varying degrees of severity. The militants managed to escape. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia has announced a reward of 3 million rubles for information about four wanted men. On Friday, a source said one of the wanted men, Amir Bokov, had turned himself in to police.
«The operational headquarters in the Republic of Ingushetia, in the course of carrying out operational-search activities as part of a counter-terrorist operation, detained a resident of Malgobek A.B. Bokov, born in 2001,» the message says.
According to of the operational headquarters, the detainee is a member of a bandit group involved in the attack on law enforcement officers.
«Currently, the necessary investigative actions are being carried out against Bokov,» the department noted.
On March 27, unidentified persons from automatic weapons fired at a traffic police post on the border of Ingushetia and North Ossetia. As a result, two police officers were injured. The next day, the body of one of the alleged participants in the attack with gunshot wounds was found in the city of Karabulak.
Shortly after that, the regional FSB announced the search for five residents of the republic, who are suspected of planning to commit terrorist crimes.
On the afternoon of April 3, a firefight took place between a group of unknown persons and police officers in the Malgobek district, as a result of which one of the security forces was slightly injured. From 20.00 Moscow time on Monday, the CTO regime was introduced on the territory of the Malgobek district. On Wednesday, in one of the villages of the district, the body of one of those wanted for attacking police officers was found. An assault rifle, an underbarrel grenade launcher and four grenades were found on him. /draki-1863568530.html» data-title=»The ringleader of Central Asians who beat teenagers was arrested in Moscow»>