MOSCOW. Sept 16 (Interfax) - The central staff of the Russian Investigative Committee will be probing a criminal case on an attack on a police station in the Voronezh region, the committee said on its website on Thursday.
"The Investigative Committee chairman has ordered that the central staff investigate a case of felonies committed in the Voronezh region: the killing of a family and an attempt on the lives of police officers by means of an explosive device," the committee said.
The committee said on Thursday that a man had an altercation and killed a family he knew and blew up the door of the Liski district police department using an explosive device afterward.
Then, the man drove his Niva car to Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh region, the committee said.
The explosion inflicted a non-life threatening fragmentation injury on the right shin of a patrol platoon officer born in 1995.
The criminal is at large.
The media has identified him as Vladimir Strakhov, a 34-year-old worker with a private security guard company.
A criminal case has been opened on counts of homicide and attempt on the lives of police officers by means of an explosive device.