TWELVE people at a traditional supper celebrating Russia’s national unity day have been killed, including four young children, in a massacre that has shocked the country and prompted the firing of several high-level police.
Bandits from a local criminal group broke into the house in the southern Krasnodar region stabbed 10 of the diners to death and suffocated two others in a bloodbath that lasted one-and-a-half hours.
Six suspects have been arrested from a criminal group that used violence to control the region’s fertile land aided by officials turning a blind eye.
Analysts say the crime has shown up one of the greatest malaises of modern Russia collusion between criminals and serving officials in the provinces.
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