NAZRAN. Dec 25 (Interfax) - A police officer was shot in his backyard in Orjonikidzevskaya, Sunzha district of Ingushetia, a source from the Ingush Interior Ministry told Interfax.
"The incident happened at around midnight, Moscow time. The assailants opened automatic gunfire at the officer of the Sunzha district police department in his backyard. The officer was taken to a hospital with multiple injuries," the press service said.
The officer returned fire but the assailants managed to escape. The search is in progress, it said.
The Ingush department of the Russian Investigative Committee told Interfax the officer's name was Ramazan Zurabov.