Traffic police detained an armed gang in the Gorki district

February 16, Minsk /BELTA correspondent/. Traffic police officers detained an armed gang in the Gorki district, the UGAI of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus informed a BELTA correspondent. In the evening of February 15, a resident of Mogilev contacted the Orsha District Department of Internal Affairs. He stated that more than an hour ago, three unknown individuals, whom he had given a ride in a Volkswagen car, seized the car under threat of a rifle butt and fled. Officers of the traffic police departments of the Vitebsk and Mogilev regional executive committees found the car about two hours later in one of the villages of the Gorki district. Three young men were detained there, one of whom has a criminal record for theft and robbery, and the others for hooliganism. A rifle butt of an unidentified make, caliber 7.62 mm, was seized from the men. More detailed information has not yet been released.-0-