MOSCOW. March 30 (Interfax) - A man who earlier fired several shots in the suburban settlement of Veshki outside of Mytishchi in the Moscow region threw two grenades at security forces, but no one was harmed, Tatyana Petrova, spokesperson for the Russian Interior Ministry office for the Moscow region, said on Tuesday.
Police and Federal Security Service (FSB) officers earlier approached a private home in Veshki to look into a tip that a local man, born in 1960, illegally possessed firearms.
After the police produced a court warrant for searching the home to the suspect's wife and entered the private territory, a man started firing an assault rifle from a window and then threw two grenades.
"No one was harmed. The law enforcement officials are continuing their work and taking measures to detain the offender," Petrova said.
An informed source told Interfax earlier in the day that a resident of a suburban community near Mytishchi started shooting at passersby from a window of his home.