Bodies of four Bashkir police officers killed in Chechnya will be flown home
UFA. Aug 18 (Interfax) - Four officers of a composite police detachment from Bashkortostan died on duty in Grozny district of Chechnya, the press service of the Interior Ministry department for Bashkortostan informed Interfax.
Early reports say that at about 5:40 p.m. Moscow time on Friday four police officers from Bashkortostan were returning from their shift at a checkpoint when they came under intensive automatic fire 200 meters away from their temporary place of deployment in the village of Alkhan-Kala.
All four officers died in the attack.
An effort was launched to identify and track the attackers.
Meanwhile, a group of Bashkir police officers has left Ufa for Chechnya to probe all the circumstances of the incident.
The bodies of the killed officers - traffic police officer Yury Alexeyev (born in 1975), police inspector Ilshat Ilyasov (1975), Rif Abdullin (born in 1972) and Rinat Mustafin (born in 1984), will be returned to their home places shortly, the press service said.
The families of the killed officers all of whom were survived by widows and small children will be rendered all-round moral and material assistance, the Interior Ministry added.