In Makhachkala in the evening, shooting and explosions were heard again. Two policemen were killed, three were injured

Two people were killed, three were injured as a result of two armed incidents that occurred on Tuesday evening in Makhachkala.

According to Interfax with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, at about 19:00 near the house 98 on Akushinsky Street, unknown criminals shot a district policeman. He died on the way to the hospital. When the patrol UAZ drove up to the scene, an explosive device worked next to it. As a result, two police officers and one random passerby were injured.

Around the same time, on Gamidova Street in Makhachkala, the VAZ-2107 car did not react to the demand of policemen to stop and tried to hide. The car drove into Akhundov Street, where people sitting in it tried to organize an ambush on the patrol that pursued them. “During the shootout, one of the suspects was killed, the other two managed to hide,” the first deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan Valery Zhernov told reporters at the scene.

"The dead is pre -identified, but we still cannot name his name in the interests of the investigation. I have no doubt that he and the hiding suspects are included in the Makhachkala diversion -terrorist group, which recently made several attacks on police officers," said Gornov.

According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, two pistols of Makarov, about a dozen grenades, about one and a half dozens of equipped stores for Kalashnikov’s assault rifle, several packs of cartridges for PM pistol and two Tynophery pistols were abandoned from the car that was abandoned.