MOSCOW — The reports on state television and state news agencies RIA Novosti and Tass said the shooting started Sunday afternoon when police stopped a suspicious vehicle in Nizhny Novgorod, a city 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Moscow. The suspects opened fire and police shot back, the reports said.
The bomb allegedly found in the suspects’ car was detonated by a robot. Two police suffered concussions in the explosion, the reports said.
