A man with a knife attacked transport security staff at a train station in Omsk

A man with a knife attacked employees of the transport security unit on the forecourt of the Omsk-Passazhirsky station. This was announced on June 27 by the press service of the Siberian Transport Police.

The recording shows how transport security officers, along with an eyewitness to the incident, the inspector of juvenile Affairs of the Omsk Ministry of Internal Affairs, junior Lieutenant Lyudmila Andreeva, detained the suspect.

"It has now been established that representatives of Russian Railways made a remark to a citizen who was in a public place with an open bottle of strong alcohol. In response, he suddenly pulled out a knife and repeatedly tried to stab railway workers with it," the department's press service wrote on the Telegram channel.

According to the transport police, the man was detained thanks to Andreeva. It is specified that she used a combat technique that allowed the citizen to be detained.

There were no casualties as a result of the incident. The detainee was hospitalized, and a criminal case is being considered under Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Hooliganism").

On March 14, Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk reported that a man who attacked a subway employee had been detained in Moscow. According to her, he took an object similar to a knife out of his pocket and began threatening the security service inspector, brandishing a weapon in front of him. A criminal case has been opened against the detainee under Articles 116 ("Beatings") and 119 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Threat of murder").