Investigators eye 'drug link' in south Russia mass murder | Crime | RIA Novosti

Investigators eye 'drug link' in south Russia mass murder | Crime | RIA Novosti: "Russian investigators are looking into the possibility that the mass murder in the southern Russian city of Stavropol could be drug-related, an official investigations spokesman on Saturday.
The bodies of five men and three women with gunshot and stab wounds were found on Friday in a house, belonging to a local crime boss Vladimir Slizayev, known as 'Khan.'
Spokesman Vladimir Markin said the dead people were the house's owner Slizayev, a drug smuggler who had served a given jail sentence, his family members and a driver.
An eight-year-old boy and four-week-old girl, believed to be Slizayev's granddaughter, have survived the slaughter. The children were blocked in a room on the second floor, investigators said.
While leaving the house, the killers damaged a gas tank to provoke a gas explosion in an effort to kill the children. However, no blast occurred and the children have been unharmed."

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