DUSHANBE, April 18, Asia-Plus - Tajik national has been killed in an attack in the Russian capital.

Muhammad Egamzod, press secretary of the Tajik Embassy in Moscow, said that the incident took place near the residential building on the Metallurgov Street on April 16. 

According to him, the 27-year-old labor migrant form Dushanbe Khairullo Sodiqov was assaulted by two young men, who were apparently skinheads.  “They inflicted more than 35 stab wounds and Sodiqov died on the scene of action,” Egamzod said.  

“The embassy keeps up with a process of investigation into the incident,” Egamzod said, noting that the investigation is conducted by the prosecutor’s office in the eastern administrative district of Moscow.  According to him, two students of one of Moscow higher educational institutions have been arrested on suspicion of having been involved in the killing.  

Russia has recently seen an increasing number of attacks on non-Russians

RIA Novosti has quoted Russia’s Interior Ministry as saying previously that it is monitoring 150 extremist groups in Russia, especially race-hate groups, which have a total membership of around 10,000.  About 80% of the extremist groups'' members are under 30, and most are based in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the Samara and Voronezh regions, according to the ministry''s data.