| Daghestanian police detained a group of armed men from Chechnya near a traffic police post on the Kavkaz federal highway overnight, regional police department sources told Itar-Tass. Six residents of Chechnya’s Nozhai Yurt region were in Niva and UAZ cars without state registration numbers. They were stopped at the Stepnoye-2 traffic police post. When policemen asked to show their documents, one of the people in the cars took out a grenade and threatened to set if off. One of the Niva passengers was killed in the exchange of fire that broke out there. The other five were wounded and taken to hospital in Khasavyurt. Nobody of the policemen was hurt, the Novolaskoye regional police department said. The policemen seized from the group a machine gun, 200 cartridges for it, four submachine guns, 24 magazines filled with cartridges, three pistols, 10 grenades and a Kenwood radio set. The Novolakskoye regional prosecutor’s office has instituted legal proceedings for the attempt on policemen’s life. |