MOSCOW. Sept 17 (Interfax) - A man suspected of bombing a police station and homicide in the Voronezh region has been detained, he resisted the arresting officers and was injured, the Russian Investigative Committee said.
"He put up an armed fight with the arresting officers, but was disarmed thanks to the professional actions of the police. The suspect was injured during the special operation, he is receiving medical aid," the committee said in a statement seen by Interfax on Friday.
The Interior Ministry has confirmed the detention of the assailant of a police station in the Voronezh region. "Officers of the Russian Interior Ministry have detained a man suspected of attacking a police station in the town of Liski in the Voronezh region," the press service of the Russian Interior Ministry's department in the Voronezh region told Interfax.
According to the press service, the suspect's car was stopped near the village of Studenok. The 52-year-old suspect put up an armed fight. "The police fired weapons in order to detain him, and the suspect sustained an injury. There are no police or civilian casualties. The detainee was given medical aid on site," it said.
The Russian Investigative Committee said, for its part, that the detainee is Viktor Mirsky, a resident of the Volchanskoye village in the Voronezh region. "His home is being searched," the committee said.
The committee said earlier that the man killed a family he knew after they had an altercation on September 16. Later on, he came to the police station of the Liski district and blew up the station's door.
Once that was done, the man drove a Niva car in the direction of Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh region, the committee said.
The explosion inflicted a non-life threatening fragmentation wound on the right shin of a patrol platoon serviceman born in 1995.
A criminal case was opened on counts of homicide and attempt on the lives of police officers by means of an explosive device.