Relatives of Maria Kim, who died in Kazakhstan, called the cause of her death a fatal accident
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Relatives of the Russian woman Maria Kim, who died during the riots in Kazakhstan, considered that the cause of her death was a fatal accident. This is reported by the Telegram channel Shot.
Relatives of the deceased claim that no stab wounds were found on the body. “An ambulance picked up Maria in the city center with a gunshot wound at close range. They were shooting almost point-blank. She died instantly,” said the mother-in-law of the deceased.
Relatives believe that the girl came under fire from the radicals. At the same time, the house where she rented an apartment is literally a hundred meters from the city administration, where the most violent clashes took place.
The death of a Russian woman during the protests became known on January 14. According to media reports, she was stabbed seven times and finished off with a control shot in the head when she closed the coffee shop where she worked. The regional police department said that Kim died after a gunshot wound. The police insisted that the information about stab wounds that appeared in the press was not true.
Protests in Kazakhstan began on January 2 due to rising prices for liquefied natural gas. Soon economic demands were replaced by political ones, the protesters demanded the resignation of the government and the departure from politics of former President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
