September 18, 2003 - 22:06 AMT
ONE PERSON KILLED IN SCUFFLE BETWEEN AZERIS IN MOSCOW
A scuffle between Azeris took place yesterday at Timiryazevskiy Moscow market at about 10 a.m. It resulted in serious injury of an Azeri, who later died in the reanimation of the 81-st clinical hospital of Moscow. As reported by "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" Russian newspaper, 7-9 people with knife injuries are also at hospital according to different reports. Arriving at the occurrence location, militia officers detained 13 supposed participants of the fight. An investigation of the scuffle is being held. As militiamen say, sharing of trading space caused the fight. The newspaper draws the readers' attention to the fact that natives of Azerbaijan participate in most "market" ethnic conflicts registered. One of the recent examples: traders from Azerbaijan have made a scuffle among each other at Cherkizovskiy goods market of Moscow this June.