ST. PETERSBURG, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - Eight members of an extremist gang in St. Petersburg suspected of being involved in the killing of a student from Senegal have been detained, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Lamzer Samba, a fifth-year student at St. Petersburg's State Telecommunications University, was shot dead April 7. Police found a gun with a swastika at the scene of the murder, which prompted protests against a slew of suspected race-hate killings and incidents in Russia's second city.
Prosecutor Sergei Zaitsev said six guns, three kilograms of TNT and extremist literature had been found during searches of the suspected extremists' abodes.
He also said the gang had been involved in the killing of a museum official.
