MOSCOW, September 7 (Itar-Tass) — One gunman has been killed during detention in Kabardino-Balkaria and another one managed to escape.

“At about 05:00 MSK on Wednesday, during a search operation on the 16th km of the Prokhladnoye-Azau motor road, law enforcement officers tried to stop a vehicle in which gang members were riding who opened fire on them,” spokesman for the National Counterterrorism Centre (NAC) Nikolai Sintsov told Itar-Tass.

One of the militants was destroyed by return fire and the second managed to escape.

There have been no wounded among the law enforcement officers there, the NAC spokesman added.