Brawl in Moscow cemetry leaves 3 dead
Brawl over who controls providing burial services at large graveyard in Moscow
Ongoing attempt by an armed gang to extort money from cemetery workers and “tax” them up to 90 % of their earnings
Hundreds involved in the fight, 3 people killed, 50 arrested, 27 hospitalized
At least three people were killed in a massive turf war brawl at a Russian cemetery over who controls the graveyard’s burial services.About 200 people clashed inside the Khovanskoye cemetery in southwest Moscow. The fighters fired guns and used shovels, baseball bats and steel bars to bash their opponents, police said. The brawl may have erupted over an ongoing attempt by an armed gang to extort money from cemetery workers and “tax” them up to 90 % of their earnings, Life-ru reports.
Investigators examine the body of a victim of a mass brawl near the Khovanskoye cemetery in southwest Moscow.
Video of the wild fight showed dozens of people rushing past headstones while clutching bats and poles as weapons.
At least three people were killed in the massive brawl, police said.
At least 23 of the brawlers were injured in the brutal melee, four of whom were rushed to a local hospital in serious condition, health officials said.
Police officers interrogate suspects next to a cemetary in southwest Moscow Saturday.
Two people died after a car fleeing the chaotic scene crashed into them, police said. It’s not clear how the third slain victim was killed.
Police said the brawl was believed to have been about who controls providing burial services at the sprawling graveyard. About 50 people have been detained for questioning, police said.
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