Russian police are on a manhunt for unknown attackers who reportedly threw a grenade at two police officers near a mall in the southern Republic of Ingushetia. The seriously injured officers have been taken to hospital.The Ingushetia police have confirmed that two of its servicemen were injured outside a shopping center in the city of Nazran on Wednesday.The officers were trying to detain two men, who resisted arrest and threw a grenade at them. Other reports said the policemen were sitting in a parked car at the time of the attack.The perpetrators were reportedly killed by return fire and are being identified. </s> Source: Xinhua| 2018-12-13 04:56:16|Editor: Mu Xuequan

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MOSCOW, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Two suspects were shot dead on Wednesday after one of them threw a grenade at law enforcement officers in the Republic of Ingushetia in southern Russia, local media reported.

The attack happened at a shopping center in Nazran City at around 6 p.m. Moscow time (1500 GMT), when officers were trying to detain the perpetrators suspected of involvement in terrorism.

The explosion of the grenade injured two officers, who have been hospitalized.

An investigative task force is working at the scene of the incident. </s> Russian police are on a manhunt for an unknown attacker who reportedly threw a grenade at two police officers at a marketplace in the southern Republic of Ingushetia. The seriously injured officers have been taken to hospital.

The law enforcers suffered multiple shrapnel wounds to their hands and legs, a source told Tass. “They remain conscious. Their condition is of moderate severity, non-critical,” he added.

According to other reports, the officers were sitting in a parked car when a lone attacker tossed a grenade at it. </s> National Guard servicemen involved in counter-terrorism operations have frequently been targeted by militants in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region. Late last month, a gunman was killed in the nearby Krasnodar region after opening fire on two National Guard officers in a service car.

Two National Guard servicemen were injured by a grenade explosion while detaining armed suspects at a shopping mall in Russia’s southern republic of Ingushetia on Wednesday evening.

The latest attack happened at a shopping center in the Ingush town of Nazran at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the local branch of Russia’s Investigative Committee said in a statement Thursday.

The two armed suspects reportedly resisted arrest by shooting at the National Guard officers attempting to detain them, before throwing an RGD grenade that injured the law enforcement officials.

The suspects were reportedly injured from the explosion and died from their wounds, the Investigative Committee said.

The National Guard said in a statement that the injured officers were being treated at a local hospital for their wounds.

Investigators said they have launched a probe into the attempted murder of law enforcement officials. </s> Three militans and two policemen were killed in a shoot-out following an attack on police in Russia's Chechnya region, Chechenya' leader Ramzan Kadyrov said Monday.

Blaming militants for being Daesh-linked, Kadyrov said that they attacked a police post in Chali, a town about 30 kilometres (20 miles) south of the capital Grozny, during the night.

Two policemen and three assailants were killed during the fire-fight, Kadyrov was quoted as saying in a statement from his office. Two civilians were wounded.

Russia fought two brutal separatist wars over the past two decades in Chechnya but the region has been largely pacified under pro-Moscow Kadyrov's iron-fisted rule.

A dwindling group of insurgents are still fighting the authorities in Chechnya and across the volatile North Caucasus and sporadically launch eye-catching attacks.

Fourteen security officers were killed when armed militants stormed several buildings in Grozny on the day of President Vladimir Putin's state of the nation address in December 2014.

Rights activists and the opposition accuse Kadyrov of running Chechnya as his personal fiefdom, with kidnapping and torture widespread and little oversight from Moscow.

The Russian North Caucasus is one of the major sources of foreign jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq.

The FSB security service last month said it had killed a regional "emir" of the Islamic State group in a raid. </s> MOSCOW (Sputnik) — At least two law enforcement officers and three militants have been killed during the police operation in the city of Shali located in Russia's Chechen Republic, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said Monday.



 "[The militants] opened fire and threw a grenade after the proposal to show their documents… Due to the received wounds… Sgt. 1st Class Ali Muslimkhanov and a serviceman of the Patrol-Guard Service of the Police… Islam Yakhadzhiev died. Also two local residents were injured. The immediately taken actions allowed to kill three militants," Kadyrov said.



 He added that the group was controlled from the Syrian territory by a recruiter of the Islamic State jihadist group, outlawed in Russia. </s> Police officers stand by the body of a man who was killed after an alleged stabbing attack, in the Siberian city of Surgut, Russia, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017. A knife-wielding man went on a stabbing rampage in a Siberian city on Saturday, wounding seven people before police shot and killed him. (Irina Shvets/Siapress.ru via AP) Police officers stand by the body of a man who was killed after an alleged stabbing attack, in the Siberian city of Surgut, Russia, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017. A knife-wielding man went on a stabbing rampage in a Siberian city on Saturday, wounding seven people before police shot and killed him. (Irina Shvets/Siapress.ru via AP)

A man on Saturday stabbed seven people on the street in Russia’s far northern city of Surgut before being shot dead by the police. As per a report in Reuters, the Islamic State has claimed the responsibility for the attack. Russia’s Investigative Committee which probes major crimes in the nation said, armed police was called at the crime scene and the attacker was ‘liquidated’. The Committee said it has established the man’s identity, confirming him to be a local resident born in 1994.

According to the regional police, officers present at the scene fired warning shots before taking down the suspect who was wearing a balaclava. A statement released by the regional government said, two out of the seven injured are in critical condition. The city lies some 2,100 kilometers northeast of Moscow in the oil-rich Khanty-Mansi region.

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Two police officers are injured after a man throws a grenade at them at a shopping centre in Nazran, Ingushetia, Russia. The attacker and his accomplice are later shot dead.