Cuff luck! Russian Police officer dodges death when drug dealer opens fire, with bullet lodging in cop’s handcuffs (VIDEO)

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They’re designed to stop people from getting away, but one Russian policeman owes his lucky escape to a pair of handcuffs, after they stopped a bullet heading for his chest during an attempt to arrest a suspect.

Russian media reported on Saturday that officers had flown from Kamchatka in the country’s Far East to Yegoryevsk, near Moscow, to tail a man wanted as part of a drugs case. A local source told RIA Novosti that, when they moved in to apprehend the suspect, “he opened fire on the police.”

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