A policeman of the local police guard service was wounded last night in a car in the city of Tyrnyauz, Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Itar-Tass learnt on Sunday from senior assistant to the chief of the Kabardino-Balkar branch of he Russian Investigation Committee Tatyana Nauzhokova. "A patrol of two officers of the police guard service arrived at the unemployment centre in the Elbrusskaya Street where an alarm signal went off on Saturday at 23.15," she said. Unidentified people fired on the police car with submachineguns from a Lada motor vehicle and escaped. "One police officer was wounded into a thigh and hospitalized. His life is out of danger," Nauzhokova said.
