MOSCOW, October 1. /TASS/. An officer from the Russian Investigative Committee, attacked with a knife earlier in the day, has died of a stab wound in an intensive therapy ward of Moscow’s Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Care, a medical source has told TASS.
"For all their efforts, medics have failed to save his life. Vladislav Kapustin has just died," the source said. Kapustin received a stab wound from an unidentified person at the public entrance to the Investigative Committee’s building.
According to the source, Kapustin was rushed to hospital in a critical condition. "Judging by the wound, he was attacked from behind in the area of the vertebral column so that his heart was reached," he explained.
"The attacker has been detained, investigators are questioning him," Investigative Committee Spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko has told TASS. "An officer from the central office of the Russian Investigative Committee received a stab wound at the public entrance to the department’s building in Technichesky by-street as he was doing his job to arrange the reception of citizens," she said.
Another source told TASS that the attack had come in plain view of the people waiting to be received. One of the men attacked the officer who had gone downstairs to invite the people waiting for their turn.