Two OMON policemen killed in GroznyTimur Aliyev, North Caucasus – Traffic in south-west Grozny was halted throughout the morning on August 6 as roads were closed in the Aldy and Voikova districts by order of the police and Interior Forces. Local residents also had their documents checked.
The reason for the interruptions was the killing of two warrant officers from the OMON police sent to Chechnya from the Russian town of Lipetsk. The men, Andrei Bairamov and Vyacheslav Nikolayev, were murdered at 10am at the checkpoint by the River Sunzha by a member of the Chechen Interior Ministry's external protection security forces, the so-called “oil regiment”, stationed not far from the checkpoint.
Armed with an automatic rifle, the perpetrator drove up to the checkpoint in a passenger car and entered the sentry building where he shot the two OMON men, before being killed by their surviving colleagues.
According to the Chechen Interior Ministry, the man was motivated by personal revenge. “At this stage we believe that during a night of confused shooting on the part of the checkpoint, these two particular warrant officers accidentally killed his relatives as well as colleagues from the ‘oil regiment’,” the Interior Ministry said.
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