Two residents of the Braslav district killed a pensioner for money

April 26, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. A severe punishment threatens two residents of the Braslav district for the murder of a pensioner, the official representative of the Investigative Committee Department for the Vitebsk region, Inna Gorbacheva, told a BELTA correspondent. A 20-year-old resident of the village of Sudniki, previously convicted of intentional infliction of minor bodily harm and theft, along with a fellow villager born in 1987, also convicted of drug trafficking, killed a 77-year-old pensioner with a knife for mercenary motives. The loot of the attackers was Br600 thousand and $300. The crime was committed in a barn. At the time of the dramatic events, the victim's blind wife was at home, but she heard the conversation of the villagers who coveted the old man's money. The pensioner called her relatives, who then called the police, and then she identified the attackers by their voices. The suspects have been detained. A criminal case has been initiated against them under Article 139, Part 2, Clauses 12 and 15 of the Criminal Code of Belarus (intentional unlawful deprivation of life of another person for mercenary motives, combined with robbery and committed by a group of persons), the punishment for which provides for up to 25 years of imprisonment, or life imprisonment, or the death penalty. An investigation is underway. -0-