ROSTOV-ON-DON. Oct 24 (Interfax) - Updated reports say that a resident of Ingushetia opened fire at the police, not the security of the head of the republic Sunday evening.
"During a planned antiterrorist effort the police blocked a street in one of the villages. At that time a local resident attempted to drive through the cordon disregarding the demand of the police. When they tried to stop him, he opened fire wounding an officer and was wounded himself by reply fire," head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Yevkurov told Interfax.
He said that both the officer and local resident were hospitalized and the details of the incident are being probed.
Yevkurov did not confirm the media reports of an attack on his bodyguards. "It is not clear where the information came fro," he said.
Earlier sources in law enforcement bodies of the North Caucasian federal district said that a local resident in the village of Surkhakhi tried to drive through a cordon put up by the security of the head of Ingushetia Sunday evening, but was warned against doing so. In reply he opened fire from a pistol at the bodyguards wounding one of them. The sources said that the bodyguards opened reply fire wounding the gunman and that the wounded bodyguard and attacker were hospitalized.