SIMFEROPOL, March 17. /TASS/. A Crimean resident has been detained by riot police after he opened fire from a rifle, targeting the police officers who arrived at his home, the Main Investigations Department in Crimea and Sevastopol said in a statement.
TASS has gathered the key information about the incident.
- On March 16, the deputy chief of the district criminal investigations department, a criminal investigator, and two seconded police officers arrived at a house in the village of Stefanovka to conduct operational and search activities based on an order issued by a court in the city of Dzhankoi.
- The householder fired several rifle shots at the police officers and threw an improvised explosive device in their direction, the Crimean Interior Ministry said.
- After that, he used a petrol bomb to set his car on fire and also tried to burn down the residence.
