{"id":346152,"date":"2017-08-19T09:42:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T09:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=346152"},"modified":"2017-08-19T09:42:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T09:42:47","slug":"russia-knife-attacker-wounds-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/08\/russia-knife-attacker-wounds-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia knife attacker wounds eight"},"content":{"rendered":"
Eight people have been wounded in a knife attack in the Russian city of Surgut, security sources say.<\/p>\n
The man, who apparently stabbed passers-by on the street at random, was shot dead by police.<\/p>\n
The injured have been taken to hospital, where two are in a critical condition, the state-owned RIA Novosti news agency reports.<\/p>\n
Russia’s Investigations Committee said the attacker had been “liquidated”. No motive has been established yet.<\/p>\n
The TASS news agency quoted local police as saying the man may have been suffering from mental illness.<\/p>\n
News outlet Russia Today reported the attack happened at about 11:20 local time (06:20 GMT).<\/p>\n
Surgut, about 2,100km (1,300 miles) east of Moscow in the Khanty-Mansiysk area of Siberia, has a population of more than 350,000.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Eight people have been wounded in a knife attack in the Russian city of Surgut, security sources say. The man, who apparently stabbed passers-by on the street at random, was shot dead by police. The injured have been taken to hospital, where two are in a critical condition, the state-owned RIA Novosti news agency reports. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":346153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[910],"yoast_head":"\n