An unidentified gunman was killed by police...

"At about 12:40 Moscow time, an unidentified man tried to enter the sports center in Nazran," a spokesperson for the republic"s Interior Ministry said. "At the entrance to the building he set off a metal detector. Policemen tried to search the man, but he pulled out a gun and started shooting."

The gunman was killed. Bomb disposal experts were called to the scene but no explosive device was found.

Ingush President Yunus-bek Yevkurov and several accompanying officials were unhurt in the incident, the president"s spokesman said.

Yevkurov narrowly survived an assassination attempt last summer, spending several months in a Moscow hospital after sustaining head and internal injuries when a car bomb exploded as his motorcade passed.

NAZRAN, May 1 (RIA Novosti)