DUSHANBE. April 12 (Interfax-AVN) - A Russian border guard patrol exchanged fire late on Thursday with infiltrators on the stretch of the Afghan -Tajik border covered by the Pyandzh detachment, the press service of Russian border guards reported on Friday.
The infiltrators fired two Kalashnikov machine guns and an under-barrel grenade launcher. One of them was killed but the others managed to escape.
Border guards found an AK-74 assault rifle made in an Arab country and a magazine with 12 rounds of ammunition on the dead body of the infiltrator.
There were no casualties among the border guards.