Two police officers died in an attack overnight from Sunday to Monday against a police station in the republic of Karachayevo-Cherkessia, in the Russian Caucasus, according to local authorities.
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According to the Telegram channel of the local Interior Ministry, the attackers opened fire shortly before midnight on Sunday from their car on a police station “temporarily” set up in the village of Mara-Ayagy, some 50 km to the south. of the regional capital, Cherkessk.
An exchange of fire followed, which left two police officers dead and two injured, and five attackers dead.
According to Russian investigators, the killed attackers had participated in a previous attack, on April 22, against police officers, which left two dead.
The Russian Caucasus was initially agitated in the 2000s by a jihadist guerrilla force brutally repressed by Russian forces.
