[BelSat] According to Euroradio, a shootout occurred in Minsk on September 28 during a raid on the apartments.
"During an "inspection of apartments," a resident resisted the law enforcement officers, shooting and killing one of them with a hunting rifle. The law enforcers returned fire shooting and killing the man. The wounded KGB officer later died,” reports the newspaper.
The Belarusian KGB confirmed the incident:
"Today, during a special inspection of the apartments with people involved in terrorist activities, man fired a shotgun at law enforcement officers. A particularly dangerous criminal fatally wounded an employee of the State Security Committee. The fire was returned, and the perpetrator was killed. The officer later died of injuries."
The criminal case under part 2 of article 139 of the Criminal Code (“murder of a person in connection with his official activities”) was opened.
Who was killed?
According to preliminary information, the shooter was Andrei Zeltser, an employee of EPAM Systems.
Belsat source in EPAM confirmed that an employee with that name and surname indeed worked in the Belarusian office of the company. Based on his Instagram, he was keen on photography and weapons.
According to neighbors, Andrei lived with his wife in her apartment. They were raising a son who went to elementary school. It is unclead where the child was at the time of the shooting, Nasha Niva reports.
Fake?
“It is too early to comment. But there are more questions than answers,” representative BYPOL, an initiative of Belarusian security forces, told Belsat.
Says Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
A quick video of the arrest of a Belarusian Bad Guy, during which a KGB officer was killed and a 32-year-old Bad Guy Zeltser, who worked as a programmer, was shot dead.
Utyrka's wife was detained on suspicion of complicity in the murder. Will probably get several years.
According to the Investigative Committee of Belarus.
It was preliminarily established that on September 28, employees of the state security agencies carried out special measures to work out addresses in which persons involved in terrorist activities could be.
"In response to the lawful demands of law enforcement officers, a 31-year-old resident of Minsk refused to open the door of the apartment and locked himself in it. For the subsequent so-called 'hype,' he was filming. one of them suffered bodily harm, from which he died in the hospital," said in the UK.
Given the nature of the violence used, armed resistance from a 31-year-old man, he was liquidated with return fire. His 40-year-old wife, who also filmed the crime and assisted in its commission, was detained on suspicion of complicity in the murder of a KGB officer.
Currently, urgent investigative actions and operational-search measures are being carried out, including those aimed at identifying the persons involved in the commission of the crime. Appointed forensic, complex forensic ballistic and other expert studies.
The deceased KGB officer is survived by his wife and young child.
