Exchange of fire at Belarusian-Lithuanian border, frontier guard injured

Two foreigners tried to cross the Belarusian-Lithuanian border in Astravetsk District. After having run into frontier guards the stranger opened fire from a sawn-off gun. One of the guards was injured in the shoulder. Frontier guards and the police were alerted but they didn’t manage to catch the infringers close in the tracks. The search is going on.

Zvyazda