IS claims attacks on police in Chechnya

Armed assailants injured several policemen in attacks in three locations in the Russian republic of Chechnya yesterday, as the Islamic State group claimed responsibility.

Russia's Investigative Committee said it had launched probes into three separate attacks against police, including a failed suicide bombing.

In the first attack yesterday morning, two men entered the district police department in the town of Shali and wounded a pair of policemen with knives, investigators said in a statement.

The two assailants were shot dead, Chechnya's interior ministry said.