Two teen drunk schoolgirls have inflicted stab wounds on a 10-year Tajik boy in St. Petersburg.  The cause of the attack is under investigation.

Two teen drunk schoolgirls, aged 15 and 17, have inflicted stab wounds on a 10-year Tajik boy in St. Petersburg.

The incident took place in the Kirov district of St. Petersburg Friday evening, at about 8:30 pm, according to the Russian Interior Ministry’s office for St. Petersburg and Leningrad oblast.

The boy reportedly sustained several stab wounds to the neck and head and he was diagnosed with a concussion.  

The cause of the attack is under investigation, the St. Petersburg police said.  

Meanwhile, a monthly review of instances of xenophobia and radical nationalism in Russia for June 2018 released by SOVA Center (Center for information and analysis), in particular, notes that at least seven were injured during acts of xenophobic violence in Moscow and the Novosibirsk and Samara regions in June last year.  In total, since the start of the year, three were reportedly killed and 12 injured due to xenophobic attacks.  Such incidents were recorded in six Russian regions.

 

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