REN TV: in Moscow, five men with a gun and a knife attacked a taxi driver and a passenger
Archival photo. Photo: Pavel Bednyakov / RIA Novosti
In Moscow, five unidentified men attacked a taxi driver and his 54-year-old passenger with a traumatic gun and a knife. On Monday, January 17, reports REN TV.
According to the publication, the incident took place near one of the business centers on Dmitrovskoye Highway. When the taxi driver parked, five intruders ran up to the car, opened fire and wounded the passenger with a traumatic pistol, after which they attacked the driver with a knife. Then they took the purse and fled the crime scene in a car.
In fact, a case was opened under Article 162 (“Robbery”) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. As the injured passenger subsequently reported, only a pen and a notebook were in the stolen purse. The police are now looking for the suspects. The taxi driver was taken to the hospital with a concussion, stab wounds and a closed craniocerebral injury.
On January 16, it was reported that the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a case on the fact of an armed robbery of the widow of Alexander Gradsky, Marina Kotashenko.
