Two members of a police patrol unit on duty sustained gunshot wounds near the Arcadia beach in Odesa on Friday, the city police department reports.
‘A report came at 10:20 p.m. on June 26 that two members of a police patrol unit sustained gunshot wounds near the Arcadia beach in Odesa,’ it said.
It has been determined that the policemen were performing their patrolling duties, were in uniforms, and were carrying service weapons when they sustained gunshot wounds to their bellies caused by an unidentified individual.
The policemen have been hospitalized, and the circumstances of the incident are being investigated, it said.
Head of the Chief Department of Interior Ministry in Odesa region Giorgi Lortkipanidze said on the Shuster Live talk show that one of the wounded policemen died in the site.
