MOSCOW. August 12 (RIA Novosti) - Two police officers were shot dead overnight in separate incidents in the capital of Russia's republic of Chechnya, a police spokesperson said on Wednesday.
The officers were both killed as they returned home from work in separate parts of Grozny.
"Around midnight gunmen shot at a Zhiguli car being driven by a police officer, who died at the scene," the spokesperson said.
The other police officer was killed, he said, when "offenders at a bus stop near a police post fired at him." He later died in hospital from his injuries.
Moscow officially ended its decade-long counterterrorism operation in the volatile North Caucasus republic in April, but violence against law enforcement and other officials has increased in Chechnya and neighboring republics in the past few months.
