An unidentified gunman was killed by police in the North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia on Saturday in a shootout at a sports center where the Ingush president was attending a Russia-wide judo tournament.
"At about 12:40 Moscow time, an unidentified man tried to enter the sports center in Nazran," a spokesperson for the republic's Interior Ministry said. "At the entrance to the building he set off a metal detector. Policemen tried to search the man, but he pulled out a gun and started shooting."
The gunman was killed. Bomb disposal experts were called to the scene but no explosive device was found.
Ingush President Yunus-bek Yevkurov and several accompanying officials were unhurt in the incident, the president's spokesman said.
Yevkurov narrowly survived an assassination attempt last summer, spending several months in a Moscow hospital after sustaining head and internal injuries when a car bomb exploded as his motorcade passed.
NAZRAN, May 1 (RIA Novosti)
