One Tajik citizen affected by incident in Moscow synagogue
14:00, january 12, 2006Author: Firdavs Murtazoyev
DUSHANBE
, January 12, Asia-Plus - One of eight people stabbed at synagogue in
Moscow
proved to be citizen of
Tajikistan
, representative of Bukhara Jews’ Diaspora living in
Russia
, the source in the Tajik MFA told Asia-Plus referring to the Tajik Embassy in
Moscow
.
RIA Novosti reports that yesterday, a man wielding a knife burst into the synagogue in the center of
Moscow
during evening prayers and stabbed at least eight people. Among the injured are citizen of the
United States
, citizen of
Israel
and citizen of
Tajikistan
. Two of those injured are in a serious condition, RIA Novosti says.
Reports say the attacker was identified as a 20-year-old Muscovite. In recent years, there have been a number of attacks on synagogues and Jewish centers across
Russia
.
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