15 September 2011, 22:00
In Anapa, 15 armed men attack a private hotel; some of them wounded
In the village of Utrish, located near the city of Anapa, 15 armed youngsters opened fire at a hotel with tourists.
According to preliminary information, a conflict between the innkeeper and a group of young people was the reason for the shooting.
According to Sergey Dmitriev, the hotel owner, he noticed that one of the guys was directing his lantern into the window of his visitors' car, and made a remark to him. A brawl burst out; then, the young men left the territory of the hotel.
A few hours after the quarrel, young men returned to the hotel with bats, pistols and a rifle and started shooting. The owner opened a response fire seriously wounded three attackers, the "LifeNews" reports.
The police are now investigating the attack on the hotel. They study the records of surveillance cameras installed in the hotel yard and define whether the hotel owner had exceeded the limits of the permissible self-defence, the "Gazeta.ru" writes.
