"At 5:50 p.m. [14:50 GMT Sunday], some time after leaving the car, the bandits were blocked by law enforcement officials, who asked them to surrender. In response, the bandits opened fire with automatic weapons on special forces and were neutralized in a brief shootout," NAC said in a statement.
According to the NAC, the gangsters were identified. According to preliminary data, all of them were in the "Sunzhenskaya" gang, and one of them — Ramzan Mahauri — is one of its leaders.
As the NAC reported, the group committed terrorist crimes, including firing of soldiers near the village of Dattyh in September 2012, the organization of suicide bombing in Sernovodsk in September 2013, as well as more than a dozen attacks on the law enforcement bodies, shootings and explosions of self-made explosive devices.
At the site the police found two guns, a Kalashnikov rifle and four grenades. "No civilian casualties and losses among the police personnel. Further operational search activities and investigation are under way,"- NAC reported.
