MOSCOW. Feb 7 (Interfax) - Two police officers were taken to the hospital from heavy injuries after being attacked in Nalchik on Wednesday evening, a police representative told Interfax.
"Assailants opened fire at a traffic police detail from a Zhiguli 7-Series car on Kirov Street in Nalchik at 9:55 p.m. Moscow time. Two officers were heavily injured," the source said.
The assailants escaped. They are being wanted, he said.
Meanwhile, the Kabardino-Balkaria republican department of the Russian Investigative Committee reported that one officer died and another was injured in the shooting incident.
"Assailants opened fire at a traffic police vehicle on the junction of Kirov and Keshokov Streets at about 10 p.m. One officer died and another was heavily injured," the department spokesman said.
He said the injured officer was taken to the hospital. A criminal case was opened on the counts of an attack on police officers and illegal weapons.
Another police officer was injured in an armed attack on a traffic police patrol in Makhachkala, a source at the Dagestani republican department of the Russian Investigative Committee told Interfax.
The attack occurred on Akushinsky Avenue, near an exit from Makhachkala at about 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, he said.
"Judging by tentative findings, an unknown man opened automatic gunfire at a police patrol vehicle. An officer was injured. The search for the assailant is underway," the source said.