A resident of Vitebsk district strangled his former cohabitant

July 9, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. A resident of the Vitebsk district strangled his former cohabitant, the official representative of the Investigative Committee of Belarus for the Vitebsk region, Inna Gorbacheva, told a BELTA correspondent. The body of the strangled woman, born in 1981, was found in a roadside ditch on the outskirts of the village of Vymno. During operational-search activities, the circumstances of the incident were established. In particular, the murder was committed at his home by the woman's former 47-year-old cohabitant during a sudden quarrel. Trying to conceal the traces of the crime, he asked his friend and fellow villager, born in 1972, to take away the body of the murdered woman. The men have been detained. A criminal case has been initiated under Part 1 of Article 139 of the Criminal Code of Belarus, which provides for up to 15 years of imprisonment. An investigation is underway. -0-