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Drunk man in Siberian village shoots four dead, attempts suicide

09:27 23/10/2008

KRASNOYARSK, October 23 (RIA Novosti) - A 28-year-old resident of a village in East Siberia's Krasnoyarsk Territory shot four people including a teenager dead with a hunting rifle before attempting suicide, a police source said on Thursday.

The man, believed to have been drunk at the time of the incident in the village of Vorogovo near Turukhansk, killed two women, one man, and a teenager in a dispute that broke out after a party, before turning the gun on himself, the source told RIA Novosti.

The suspect is in hospital in a serious condition.

An investigation is underway, and a criminal case has been launched.

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