20:00, 16 January 2012

A police car fired upon in Dagestan

A police car was fired upon in the evening of January, 15, near the settlement of Novokhushet, Dagestan. No one was injured.

"At about 22:00 Moscow time unidentified persons opened fire at a "UAZ" car with an officer acting as Chief of territorial police department", a representative of law enforcement bodies of Dagestan reported.

According to the source, "both policemen, the lieutenant and his driver, had time to jump out of the moving car" and the car fell down into the canal.

The attackers escaped, RIA "Novosti" reports.

Additional police flying squads were sent to the site of the incident, "Interfax" informs.

Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" reported that on January, 14, several assaults at law enforcement personnel were committed on the same day. A warrant officer of Directorate of Federal Security Service was killed in Makhachkala, the bailiff office in Buinaksk and a police patrol in the settlement of Magaramkent were fired upon. Two attackers in the second episode were detained.