03 August 2005, 14:40
Counter-terrorists beat police
Fifteen officers of the Counter-Terrorist Centre beat three officers of the republican Internal Affairs Ministry in the capital of Chechnya on 2 August. Another policeman sustained a gunshot wound.
"A quarrel occurred yesterday between a group of traffic police officers on duty and officers of the Counter-Terrorist Centre in Grozny's Staropromyslovskii district. The CTC officers wounded one policeman by shooting a submachine gun at him and cruelly beat his colleagues. Besides, they took away the duty weapons of the police officers: two handguns and four submachine guns," a source with the Internal Affairs Ministry told Caucasian Knot. He added the police officers had been admitted to hospital.
Author: Sultan Abubakarov, CK correspondent