A young employee of the Special Police Brigade “Fulger” suffered an injury when he launched a smoke grenade during tactical exercises on Friday morning.

Contacted by IPN for details, press officer of the General Police Inspectorate Diana Fetco said that the incident happened during exercises that the employees of “Fulger” Brigade perform at the Pruncul shooting range in Chisinau. A part of the exploded smoke grenade injured the young man in his leg.

Diana Fetco noted that as a result of this incident, the administration of the General Police Inspectorate ordered an internal inquiry to determine all the circumstances.

The young man was admitted to the Trauma Unit of the Emergency Medicine Institute. The Institute’s spokesman Dorin Arsene said the patient’s condition is medium grave.