Kabardino-Balkaria police block retreat routes of militants behind officer's murder
NALCHIK. July 17 (Interfax) - Law enforcement agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria in Russia's North Caucasus are searching for those who killed police officer Murat Nakov in Nalchik on Tuesday.
"It has already been established that there were two attackers. The preliminary information available indicates that they were armed with an automatic weapon and a pistol," a spokesman for the republic's Interior Ministry said.
Investigators are working at the site.
The militants' possible retreat routes were blocked, the spokesman said.
For his part, a spokesman for Kabardino-Balkaria's branch of the Russian Investigative Committee told Interfax that the committee was alerted about the killing of Murat Nakov, an officer of the republic's Witness Protection Center, at 8:20 a.m.
Nakov was shot dead while leaving his house, located on Vatutin Street, the spokesman said.