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Policemen killed in Moscow on duty to receive awards

MOSCOW April 28

Awards will be presented posthumously to the police officers who died
in Moscow on Friday while protecting an Armenian family.

“Senior officials of the Moscow central interior affairs department
said that the police officers who died heroically protecting an
Armenian family would receive awards,” Viktor Tsoi, Moscow mayor’s
spokesman, told Interfax.

“A woman who lives on Kirovogradskaya Street, 17/1 called the police
at 7:08 a.m. and said that she could hear somebody crying for help in
a neighboring apartment. Twenty-eight-year-old Senior Lieutenant
Andrei Ashurkov and 39-year-old police officer Sergei Rebrikov
arrived at the scene,” Tsoi said.

The burglars who were robbing the Armenian family’s apartment on the
ground floor saw a police car pulling up outside the building and
decided to stage an ambush, the press secretary said.

“The police officers were shot point blank by criminals wearing
masks, who fled immediately after the crime,” Tsoi said.

“None of the family members was injured,” he said.