A young man serving in the engineering and construction battalion of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Nukus city of Karakalpakstan attacked five people, the spokesman to the Prosecutor General's Office of Uzbekistan, Khayot Shamsutdinov said.
According to the department, at 3:30 a.m. on January 3, the 19-year-old private beat up a fellow soldier, after which he left the military unit. Drunk, he entered an open house, took a kitchen knife and a hoe, and then injured four sleeping citizens: three men aged 64, 28 and 37, and a 24-year-old woman. As a result, the 28-year-old man died in the hospital.
According to the case file, the woman woke up when the suspect grabbed her chest. The young man attacked her awakened husband with a knife, and then injured the retired person and his son.
In addition, the suspect later attacked a 68-year-old pensioner near another house when he was closing the door and fled the scene. The victim called his son and told him what had happened. The man went to look for the attacker, and when he found him, the suspect also stabbed him.
A criminal case was opened Premeditated murder charge and Attempted premeditated murder of two or more persons for hooligan motives charge of the Criminal Code. He was detained.
The victims were hospitalized. The investigation was conducted by the Nukus military prosecutor's office. Later, the case was transferred to the jurisdiction of the military prosecutor's office.
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