The two persons who were reported to have been killed today in Moscow were not actually Azerbaijanis, reported.
According to Moskovsky Komsomolets, the two victims are 69-year-old Azerbaijan-born Lev Kamalyan and 36-year-old Russian citizen Nurik Munduzov of Kyrgyz origin.
Eyewitnesses say the two were murdered by a group of young skinhead who appeared to be drunk.
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Two Azerbaijanis have been killed and another one seriously wounded in Moscow.
The incident took place near the subway station "Ryazansky Prospekt", APA’s Moscow correspondent reported.
Early this morning, some unknown persons attacked with machetes on three Azerbaijanis, who were engaged in petty trade. As a result, two of our compatriots born in 1947 and 1980 were killed. Their names have not been disclosed. The other Azerbaijani (born in 1981) was seriously wounded and taken to hospital. It is reported that one of them died on the way to hospital.
The Moscow office of the Investigative Committee of Russia has opened a criminal case under Article 105.2 (murder of two or more persons) and 112 (deliberate damage to on human health).
They told APA that the Main Directorate in Moscow of the Interior Ministry of Russia is currently carrying out operational-search measures to detain persons that committed the murder. The Office reported that the dead and wounded are Azerbaijanis. It is not possible that the murder was committed on ethnic grounds. A senior police official said that the murder happened on a national basis. He said that a man of Slavic origin attacked the Azerbaijanis engaging in trade.
Persons killed in Moscow were not Azerbaijanis - UPDATED
12 August 2016
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