Teenager shot dead by Russian Police for stabbing a policeman

A policeman in Russia’s central Tatarstan area fatally shot a teenage boy who had stabbed a fellow officer with a knife.The event on Friday was being considered an alleged “terrorist” attack, officials stated.

After the policemen approached the 16-year-old, he started to approach them with a knife, as per Russian Media.

“The young man did not respond to reiterated commands to stop the criminal acts. He actively countered arrest, causing many knife injuries to one of the policemen,” the region’s interior ministry announced in a declaration.

It was not instantly clear what the teenager’s motivation for such an offence was.

He hit the officer at least three times throughout the night-time attack in the town of Kukmor, Russia’s top investigative agency announced in a declaration.

“The other policeman, after threatening shots, was ordered to shoot to kill. As a consequence of the wounds, the assailant died before the arrival of medical workers,” the Investigative Committee stated.

The Russian news agency Interfax proclaimed that the boy had been endeavouring to set fire to a police station before the police interposed. The policeman is recuperating in hospital.

The attack happens one day after a man attacked three people to death in Nice, France, in what officials are treating as a “terrorism” incident.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was amongst many international leaders who expressed sympathies to his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron.