26 May 2011, 18:00
Eight people wounded in a skirmish among natives of Ingushetia and Dagestan in St. Petersburg
A skirmish among natives of Ingushetia and Dagestan occurred at night of May, 22, not far from a café in the 8th Line of Vasilievsky Ostrov, St. Petersburg, eight people got wounded. According to law enforcement bodies, the incident was a result of shoot-outs.
The investigation established that two men from Ingushetia opened fire from handguns at a man from Dagestan who according to Chief Directorate of Interior Affairs worked for a rival firm. As a result of the incident eight injured persons were taken to different hospitals of the city with wounding of various extent of gravity.
Two of the shooters were detained. Arrest and secure detention were selected as a preventive punishment for them, "BaltInfo" reports.
The conflict among the natives of Ingushetia and Dagestan was caused by repartition of criminal authority areas in the sphere of passenger mini-bus traffic in Vasileostrivsky district, "RosBalt" reports.
We will remind that on January, 24, twelve people were detained for suspicion of participation in a mass scuffle which took place on January, 23, in the South of St. Petersburg. Eight of them were natives of Azerbaijan.
See earlier reports: "One person perished in a mass scuffle between natives of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Moscow region," "Moscow: man hospitalized after mass brawl involving Russians and Azerbaijanis," "Investigation into the murder of "Spartak" FC fan Yegor Sviridov is over," "A mass scuffle occurred in Dagestan, one person killed," "Two residents of Chechnya injured in mass brawl in central Moscow."
