Transbaikalia: A man died in a shootout with the military

One Transbaikalz was killed by three more wounded in an armed conflict between the military and residents of the Petrovsky Plant station. According to the head of Petrovsk-Zabaikal Alexander Taranov, he shot a watch military echelon.

The shootout occurred yesterday, August 27, at night at the Petrovsky Plant station at the railway station. According to eyewitnesses, the military entered the local cafe, where the local company celebrated their birthday. There was a conflict between them - two soldiers under a contract were wounded by knives.

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“The soldiers were cut, they ran back, jumped into the Gospital wagon. The locals were behind them, and there they shot up. They shot up, but they didn’t believe it, apparently that they would shoot and rushed further to the wagon. The sentry fired-one corpse, one wounded,” quotes the head of Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky Alexander Taranov Chita.ru .

The Ministry of Internal Affairs in the region said the editors of Siberia. Reals that they did not engage in this incident. "

The press service of the Eastern Military District said that the soldier performed the duties of the sentry as part of the guard to protect the military echelon, when he "applied weapons to the unknown group," violating the border of the post and tried to attack the guard. Unknown people did not respond to the prevention of watch and warnings in the air, they said in the press service, noting that "the use of weapons by sentry corresponded to the provisions of the charter of the garrison and guard service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation."