Transport police officer Mikhail Beregovoy died while helping his colleague, who was attacked by residents of the Neryungri region, the Yakutia 24 TV channel reports with reference to the press service of the UT Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Far Eastern Federal District.

He came to visit a colleague living in Neryungri. The police, while in the apartment, heard screams. The landlord went downstairs and reprimanded three men who were fighting and breaking the front door.

“The young people reacted aggressively, attacked the police officer and began to beat him. Mikhail Beregovoy heard the noise of a fight, went down to his colleague to help. In the course of the conflict, both employees received multiple injuries, and the attackers fled the scene, ”the message says.