Russia: Police kill knife-wielding man after two officers stabbed in Chechnya

A knife-wielding man was killed in a confrontation with the police after he stabbed two officers near the residence of the head of Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, here on Sunday evening."The driver stabbed a police officer and a (National Guard) officer and was shot down," Sputnik quoted a regional interior ministry official as saying.The police officer was stabbed and wounded after he stopped the 23-year-old man's car in the Chechen capital of Grozny and asked for his ID. Seeing the ruckus, the National Guard officer, who was off-duty, intervened by shooting at the assailant before being injured himself."The National Guard officer saw what was going on and shot his gun at the attacker and was wounded by him," a spokesperson said.No civilian was injured during Sunday's incident. The injured officers were rushed to the hospital, where their condition is said to be stable.