Three killed in Russia court after defendants try to grab officers' guns

Record ID: 904869

  • Title: Three killed in Russia court after defendants try to grab officers' guns
  • Date: 1st August 2017
  • Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (AUGUST 1, 2017) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF EXTERIOR COURT BUILDING
  • Embargoed: 15th August 2017 15:29
  • Keywords: Moscow court attack defendants
  • Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
  • City: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
  • Country: Russia
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice
  • Reuters ID: LVA0036SBQS7B
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Three people being taken to stand trial in a Moscow court were shot dead after they tried to grab side-arms from court security officers and escape, Russian law enforcement officials said on Tuesday (August 1).
    Five defendants were in a lift in the Moscow regional court building when they tried to seize the weapons from the officers escorting them, a spokeswoman for Russian Investigative Committee, Svetlana Petrenko, told in a video comment.
    She said that three of the defendants were shot as they tried to escape, and two others were wounded.
    A lawyer for the defendants, citing the chief investigator in their case, told Reuters earlier that four of the accused had been killed in a gunfight which broke out in the building of the Moscow Regional Court.
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