ARMENIAN CITIZEN KILLED IN EL-TRAIN IN MOSCOW REGION
ITAR-TASS News Agency
May 30, 2006 Tuesday
A 19-year old citizen of Armenia was killed in an el-train in the
Moscow region. A criminal case into the murder has been opened under
Article 105 of the Russian Criminal Code (murder for reasons of ethnic
hatred), a source from the Prosecutor’s Office of the Moscow region
told Tass on Tuesday.
Onlookers’ testimony was used to draw an identikit of suspects involved
in the crime.
The Armenian victim, Artur Sardaryan, was killed when he was returning
from Moscow to the town of Pushkin north of Moscow on May 25, said
lawyer for the victim’s family Simon Tsaturyan.
Unknown assailants stabbed the victim in the neck and heart when the
train was approaching the Klyasma railway station. The victim died
on the spot. The lawyer said there were two assailants at least who
attacked the man in the el- train. There were some twenty passengers
who witnessed the incident in the train car.