A minor is suspected of murdering a security guard in the Vitebsk region

August 17, Minsk / Vitaly Petrovich - BELTA /. A minor is suspected of murdering a watchman at one of the enterprises in the Shumilino district of the Vitebsk region. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the Investigative Committee of Belarus for the Vitebsk region. The body of a man born in 1953 with incised neck wounds and stab wounds to the chest was discovered on August 16 in a field near one of the villages in the Shumilino district. The crime scene was examined by an investigative team of employees from the Shumilino District Department of Internal Affairs and the District Department of the Investigative Committee, as well as criminal investigation officers from the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee. Within a few hours, as a result of operational actions, the suspect in the murder was detained. He turned out to be a minor local resident. The Shumilino District Department of the Investigative Committee of Belarus has initiated a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 139 of the Criminal Code of Belarus ("Murder") based on this fact. Law enforcement officers are conducting an investigation; necessary examinations have been carried out, witnesses have been interrogated, face-to-face interrogations have been conducted, searches have been performed, and verification of testimony at the scene has been carried out. "Currently, work is ongoing to collect evidence and establish the truth in this case," the Investigative Committee noted. -0-