ARMENIAN STUDENT DIES OF STAB WOUNDS
Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union
Feb 1 2008
DC
The Armenian victim of a knife attack in Moscow on January 23 died of
his wounds in a hospital the following day, police said, according to
"The Moscow Times." Passersby found the 20-year-old student at Moscow
State Automobile and Road Technical University lying on the street at
about 9:20 p.m., Northern Administrative District police spokeswoman
Yekaterina Malyugina said. "We have no idea who attacked, or why they
attacked," she said. "We are examining all possible motives." She
declined to give the victim’s name, which Interfax reported as Vladimir
Karamzhyan. She said that the victim, who had been stabbed five times
in the upper torso, was attacked near his home and that surgeons at
City Hospital No. 50 had battled for hours to save his life. Interfax
reported that five assailants aged from 12 to 18 attacked the student,
while Regnum.ru listed as many as 20 attackers.