“Near the entrance, three malefactors threw a gas canister into his eyes and inflicted bodily harm on him.
At the same time, the attackers did not steal the policeman's personal belongings, did not put forward any demands, ”RIA Novosti quotes Gorelykh as saying.
The police officer was hospitalized with severe facial injuries.
The investigation established the identity of the offenders.
“This is a 16-year-old local resident Gainullin, his partner by the name of Lysov, they have already been interviewed.
The third accomplice hastily left the capital of the Middle Urals shortly after the state of emergency, but his representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs have already discovered that he was in the Turin Sloboda, ”the Sverdlovsk Region Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.
Earlier it became known that as a result of gas cotton in a residential building in Yekaterinburg, two people were injured.