ITAR-TASS News Agency
TASS
April 28, 2006
Police give details of attack on policemen in south Moscow
MOSCOW, April 28
Police have established the details of an attack on a police patrol
in southern Moscow early on Friday, in which two policemen were
killed, law enforcement sources have told Itar-Tass.
They said occupants of an apartment house in Kirovogradskaya Street
had called the police and reported that calls for help could be heard
from one of the apartments. A police patrol was rushed to the site to
check.
“A family of Armenian nationals lives in the apartment where six
Georgian nationals rushed in early in the morning. Most likely it was
a criminal account-settling,” the source said.
According to eyewitnesses, when the criminals saw a police car, they
staged an ambush in the apartment. When the policemen entered the
apartment, they opened fire with automatic weapons.
Both policemen, a senior lieutenant and a senior sergeant, died at
the site, the sources said. Six attackers climbed out of the window
and disappeared.
Moscow police have launched an all-Moscow operation trying to seize
the criminals.