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    RIA Novosti, Russia
    April 28 2006

    Two police officers killed in Moscow shooting
    11:24 | 28/ 04/ 2006

    (Rewrites with investigation details)

    MOSCOW, April 28 (RIA Novosti) - Two police officers shot dead early
    Friday were killed by members of a Moscow-based organized crime group
    set up by ethnic Georgians, a source close to the investigation said.

    The officers came under fire from an automatic weapon as they entered
    an apartment in the south of the Russian capital, following a
    telephone call reporting an ongoing burglary.

    "The attackers are members of a Moscow-based organized crime group of
    ethnic Georgians," the source said, adding that the gang had been
    raiding the apartment, owned by ethnic Armenians, as part of a war
    between crime groups feuding over economic interests.

    He said the killers left the apartment through a window, and that no
    casualties among members of the Armenian family that owned the
    apartment have been reported.

    Police said earlier Friday that one police officer was killed at the
    scene, and the other was wounded and died while being taken to the
    hospital. The second officer said before he died that there had been
    six attackers in the apartment.

    Prosecutors said they had opened a criminal case into the incident,
    and police have launched a search for the killers.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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