MOSCOW, August 23 (RIA Novosti) - Four people sustained stab wounds in a hate crime attack on gays in southeast Moscow, a police spokesperson said Wednesday.

A group of young people broke into a flat on Novokuzminskaya Street, where sexual minorities live, and attacked them.

"Four people were hospitalized with stab wounds, one of them in a coma and another also in grave condition," the source said.

Police are searching for the attackers.