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Police Search Moscow After Attack on National Guardsmen

Yuri Smityuk / TASS

Police are searching Moscow's Novomoskovsky district for a group of five to seven unidentified men who attacked a patrol of Russian national guardsmen on Thursday night, killing one and wounding another.

A source in law enforcement told the RIA Novosti news service that the attackers also managed to get away with two automatic rifles and a pistol, all with full ammunition. 

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