Perilous Times
Children, newborn among 12 killed in knife attack in Russian village
* By Sergei Venyavsky in Rostov-on-Don
* From: AP
* November 06, 2010 8:17AM
UNIDENTIFIED attackers armed with knives killed 12 people, including
three children and a newborn, who had gathered for a celebration at a
home in a Russian village, authorities said.
The attackers then tried to burn the bodies.
The motive for the brazen killings overnight in Kushchevskaya, a
farming village of about 100 homes in the southern Krasnodar region,
was unclear.
Prosecutors from Moscow have been sent to help investigate.
Prosecutors said one of the children was strangled and another died of
smoke inhalation. The other two children and all eight adults died of
stab wounds, with some of them stabbed as many as 10 times.
Two families were visiting the host family, a farmer and his wife,
Krasnodar emergency services spokesman Alexander Tabakov said.
"The three families were going to celebrate some holiday, because there
was a lot of food and drinks on the table," he said.
Mr Tabakov said the killers tried to hide the crime by moving the
bodies to the second floor of the house and then setting the house on
fire. The bodies were doused with kerosene, with a trail of kerosene
leading downstairs, but a fire set on the first floor fizzled out
before reaching the second floor.
Nothing was stolen from the house, he said.
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