A daring showdown took place in Chelyabinsk: a group of ten armed men in medical masks opened fire on the passengers of a foreign car standing on Tankistov Street. The event was caught on video footage circulating on social networks.
Eyewitnesses heard more than 40 shots. After the shooting, the shooters fled in a Lada Granta car. One of the witnesses to the incident turned out to be an OMON officer, who immediately provided medical assistance to the injured.
The victims, the driver and passenger of the foreign car, were hospitalized with wounds to their extremities. Nearby cars were also damaged.
Law enforcement officials have already identified all participants in the incident. The shooting led to the detention of the perpetrator and other participants in the event.
Earlier in Yekaterinburg are looking for a shooter who shot into the sky at a wedding. Witnesses of the incident expressed outrage at the noisy wedding celebration with the use of weapons in the courtyard of an apartment building. They claim that the shooter is a 26-year-old native of Tajikistan, who has Russian citizenship.
A criminal case of malicious hooliganism has been opened in Yekaterinburg after an incident of shooting in the air during a wedding. The head of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, requested a report on the progress of the investigation of this case from the acting head of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Sverdlovsk Region, Anatoly Nadbitov.