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Yahoo
05-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Policeman injured, attacker killed in southern Russia assault, governor says
(Reuters) -A policeman was attacked in Russia's Kabardino-Balkaria region in the North Caucasus on Friday, leaving one person dead and another injured, regional governor Kazbek Kokov said. According to Kokov, the attacker wounded the policeman with an unspecified bladed weapon before being shot dead. Kokov provided no further details about the incident. The Russian state-run RIA news agency reported that there were two attackers and the second one was at large. Russia's North Caucasus regions have suffered several deadly attacks in recent years. In March, counter-terrorism forces killed four militants affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS) who authorities said were plotting to attack a regional branch of the interior ministry.
Russia Today
04-07-2025
- Russia Today
Cop gravely wounded in Muslim Russian republic
A police officer has sustained serious injuries in a knife attack on Friday in the city of Nalchik in southern Russia, according to the regional authorities. The city is located in the Muslim-majority region of Kabardino-Balkaria. The assault took place in the evening in the city center, according to reports. The police opened fire on the attackers, who were wielding bladed weapons, killing one on the spot. The second managed to flee the scene but was detained soon thereafter. The police did not comment on the identities of the attackers, adding that the circumstances of the attack are still being investigated. The incident was confirmed by Kazbek Kokov, the head of Kabardino-Balkaria. He only mentioned one attacker and said that he had been 'neutralized.' The injured police officer was hospitalized and is in serious condition, TASS reported, citing local emergency services. Images from the scene obtained by RT show at least one person in a black T-shirt and khaki trousers lying on the ground in an area cordoned off by police. The motives of the attackers remain unclear.
Daily Mail
16-05-2025
- Daily Mail
Girl, 13, is killed after javelin thrown during PE lesson goes through her eye
A 13-year-old Russian girl has died after being struck in the head by a spear during an athletics training session at school. The freak incident occurred on May 3 in the village of Priblizhnaya, a rural locality in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. A 17-year-old boy is said to have launched a training spear while the coach was absent from the sports field, hitting the girl in the eye, investigators said. The unnamed schoolgirl was taken to hospital and remained in intensive care for four days but died four days later. The Investigative Committee of Russia has opened a criminal case and is examining whether safety protocols were followed at the school. Officials are also assessing the actions of the teacher who left the students unsupervised. The regional prosecutor's office has initiated its own review into the quality of services provided by the sports school. The teen's death comes after an Australian high school student was impaled by a javelin in a freak accident during a PE lesson back in 2020. The 12-year-old boy pierced his groin when he tripped over the razor-sharp gym equipment at Saint Stephen's College in the northern Gold Coast suburb of Coomera. The boy still had parts of the javelin inside his body when he arrived at the Gold Coast University Hospital after fire crews had broken off the ends with cutting equipment. The boy is believed to have fallen on top of the javelin after he tried to jump over it while it was stuck in the ground, The Courier-Mail reported. The same year in Australia, a man in his 60s was impaled by a javelin after he fell three metres through a roof. The horrific incident happened in Gladstone, Queensland. Emergency crews worked to remove the javelin from the man's leg and rushed him to Gladstone hospital to treat the gruesome injury.
