 Unidentified assailants fatally shot two police officers in separate attacks on New Year's Eve in the capital of Russia's war-scarred Chechnya region, law enforcement authorities said on Tuesday. In the first attack, gunmen opened fire from a vehicle, killing a Grozny police precinct chief who was on his way home after work, the regional Interior Ministry said. About two hours later, attackers with automatic rifles fired at a riot police unit commander in his car, fatally wounding him, the ministry said. Police were searching for the assailants. |