20:40, 19 August 2005
Law enforcers attacked in Chechnya
Two unknown attackers in masks broke into the house of a Chechen police officer and shot him dead with their handguns in Gekhi-Chu, Urus-Martan district, at about 11.00 pm on 18 August, a source with Chechnya's Internal Affairs Ministry told Caucasian Knot.
Unidentified persons opened fire on a VAZ-2107 vehicle with two officers of the district police department in the Vedeno district, a source with republican law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti. The police officers fired back and repelled the attack. They did not suffer, but a local resident who drove the vehicle sustained a gunshot wound. The incident occurred on the outskirts of Eshil-Khatoi. The policemen were going to Makhkety.





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