Suicide blast wounds six police officers in Chechen capital Grozny

  09 May 2016    Read: 982
Suicide blast wounds six police officers in Chechen capital Grozny
A suicide bombing at a checkpoint in Russia
A RIA Novosti police source said earlier that the blast ripped through a checkpoint in Chechnya’s capital city Grozny at around 7 a.m. local time (04:00 GMT).

"Today, police officers prevented two armed men carrying grenades and explosives from entering through Checkpoint No138 on the Grozny outskirts. Preliminary data suggests that six officers were wounded, two of them severely, in an attempt to liquidate [the militants]," the statement said.

According to RIA Novosti’s security source, one of the attackers was able to detonate an explosive, while the second was killed before he could trigger a second explosion.

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