Vitebsk pensioner shot a man on the street

August 26, Minsk /Corr. BELTA/. A pensioner shot a man dead on the street in Vitebsk, the Information and Public Relations Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus told a BELTA correspondent. The tragedy occurred right on the street of the regional center. A 74-year-old pensioner, using an unregistered IZh-12 hunting rifle of 12-gauge, killed a 63-year-old local resident during an argument. The suspect has been detained. The rifle has been seized. An investigation is underway. Just last week, a similar incident occurred in the village of Kotlovka, Ostrovets District, Grodno Region. There, during an argument in the yard of his house, a 71-year-old pensioner shot a 46-year-old fellow villager with a sawn-off unregistered hunting rifle. The man sustained a penetrating gunshot wound to the chest. And in July, a homeowner with gunshot wounds to the foot and a local resident with abdominal wounds, who later died, were taken to the Zhlobin District Hospital from the home of an unemployed resident of the village of Kitin. They were shot by a fellow villager, a pensioner, during an argument after drinking alcohol together. -0-