{"id":35906,"date":"2017-08-20T08:22:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T08:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=35906"},"modified":"2017-08-20T08:22:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T08:22:40","slug":"russia-knife-attacker-wounds-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=35906","title":{"rendered":"Russia knife attacker wounds 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"russia_55775_1503182842\"International desk: Eight people have been wounded in a knife attack in the Russian city of Surgut, security sources say.<\/p>\n

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The man, who apparently stabbed passers-by on the street at random, was shot dead by police.<\/p>\n

The injured have been taken to hospital, where two are in a critical condition, the state-owned RIA Novosti news agency reports.<\/p>\n

Russia's Investigations Committee said the attacker had been “liquidated”. No motive has been established yet.<\/p>\n

The TASS news agency quoted local police as saying the man may have been suffering from mental illness.<\/p>\n

News outlet Russia Today reported the attack happened at about 11:20 local time (06:20 GMT).<\/p>\n

Surgut, about 2,100km (1,300 miles) east of Moscow in the Khanty-Mansiysk area of Siberia, has a population of more than 350,000.BBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

International desk: Eight people have been wounded in a knife attack in the Russian city of Surgut, security sources say. The man, who apparently stabbed passers-by on the street at random, was shot dead by police. The injured have been taken to hospital, where two are in a critical condition, the state-owned RIA Novosti news […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":35907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n