A doctor’s husband shot dead five people for “making too much noise” while he was on coronavirus self-isolation in Russia, say police.
A local official linked the mass killing to tension caused by the Covid-19 lockdown. Anton Franchikov, 31, took a hunting rifle onto his balcony and open fired on the group below, it is claimed.
He allegedly shot three dead on the street, then ran downstairs in his block of flats to shoot two others dead as they sought to hide in an apartment, according to police.
Franchikov, a medic who “on paternity leave”, was detained in Yelatma, a settlement in Ryazan region with population of 3,100.
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