- Title: Man with chainsaw kills woman, hurts another in shopping mall in Belarus
- Date: 8th October 2016
- Summary: MINSK, BELARUS (OCTOBER 8, 2016) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** POLICE CORDON OUTSIDE SHOPPING MALL ENTRANCE, SING ABOVE DOOR READING (Russian): "WELCOME" POLICE INSIDE MALL SEEN THROUGH DOOR SIGN ON TAPE READING (Russian and Belarusian): "POLICE. ENTRANCE FORBIDDEN" POLICE AND INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE OFFICIALS WALKING TOWARDS JOURNALISTS (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) HEAD OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE INTERIOR MINISTRY IN THE CITY OF MINSK, ALEXANDER BARSUKOV, SAYING: "At 17:27 (14:27 GMT) a young man born in 1998 entered through this door. He was decently dressed. He had a guitar case with him. There was an axe in it. He also carried a chainsaw. At 17:28 he inflicted deadly injuries to a girl using the chainsaw. Unfortunately, she died. After this he unzipped the case, took off an axe and started threatening the people who were in the mentioned mall. There were not many people there, only two or three people." POLICE INSIDE MALL SEEN THROUGH DOOR (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) HEAD OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE INTERIOR MINISTRY IN THE CITY OF MINSK, ALEXANDER BARSUKOV, SAYING: "At 17:34 (14:34 GMT) there was the first call to the emergency control centre. Immediately, at 17:35 (14:35 GMT), the first security group, the road police squad, arrived at 17:37 (14:37 GMT). At around 17:38 (14:38 GMT) he was detained near this place." VARIOUS OF CORDONED OFF MALL ENTRANCE
- Embargoed: 23rd October 2016 20:07
- Keywords: Belarus shopping mall killing chainsaw hammer
- Location: MINSK, BELARUS
- City: MINSK, BELARUS
- Country: Belarus
- Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Crime
- Reuters ID: LVA0015359YKN
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: A young man armed with a chainsaw and a hammer entered a shopping centre in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, and killed a woman and wounded another on Saturday (October 8) evening, a spokesman for city police said.
Such violence is rare in Belarus, which President Alexander Lukashenko has ruled with an iron fist since 1994, and it was not immediately clear what the attacker's motive was.
"At 17:27 (14:27 GMT) a young man born in 1998 entered through this door. He was decently dressed. He had a guitar case with him. There was an axe in it. He also carried a chainsaw. At 17:28 he inflicted deadly injuries to a girl using the chainsaw. Unfortunately, she died. After this he unzipped the case, took off an axe and started threatening the people who were in the mentioned mall. There were not many people there, only two or three people," the head of executive committee of the interior ministry in the city of Minsk, Alexander Barsukov, said.
At least one wounded woman was rushed to hospital, he said. The assailant was detained after one or two minutes, he said. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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