The two were among four border guards who deserted from the Shirokaya border post some 6,500 kilometers east of Moscow on Tuesday night, Itar-Tass and Interfax said.
The guards -- one sergeant and three privates -- attacked a duty officer, seized four assault rifles, fired on an officer, commandeered a truck and fled.
Itar-Tass said police and security forces cornered the deserters near the town of Khorol, north of Vladivostok. One died in a shootout with security forces and another killed himself, it said. The two others surrendered.
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