Two gunmen, who put up armed resistance to policemen during an identity checkup, were destroyed in the town of Nartkala, the Urvan district of Kabardino-Balkaria overnight to Tuesday, a source in the republican branch of the Prosecutor General's Office Investigation Committee (SKP) told Itar-Tass. "The police were attempting at about 2.40 am Moscow time to make an identity checkup of two men on the outskirts of the town. The men opened automatic fire, but were destroyed in the return fire," the republican SKP source said. The bandits were identified as residents of Kabardino-Balkaria. A pistol and a submachine gun were confiscated from them.
