Police searching for criminal stabbing 8 people in Moscow

ITAR-TASS News Agency
August 13, 2005 Saturday

MOSCOW, August 13 — Police are searching for a criminal who has
stabbed eight people near the square of three major railway terminals
in Moscow, a source in Moscow law enforcement agencies told Itar-Tass.

Police received calls every 30-40 minutes overnight to Saturday that
an unidentified gangster is attacking with knife passersby. Citizens
of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia fell victims of the criminal. “All
of them were hospitalized with various knife wounds in the Sklifosovsky
First Aid Institute,” the source emphasized.

“All measures are being taken now to detain the suspect. His identity
kit is being made up,” he pointed out. Police believe that the attacker
is likely being a drug addict or a lunatic. According to preliminary
information, he did not rob his victims.