The Russian
authorities have arrested a man suspected of murdering nine people in a drunken
rage during a house party in the Tver region.
45-year-old
Sergey Yegorov allegedly shot and killed five men and four women at the house
party over the weekend.
UK Mirror
reports that the shooting spree started after fellow guests began to taunt him
for not being a "real man" because he had not served in the Russian
army.
Following
the misunderstanding, he gunned down his hosts and fellow guests at the dacha
country house using a registered weapon.
Ivan
Zagornyan, the owner of the house, where the party was being held, was shot
dead. A neighbor Slava Savelyev who was also at the venue also got killed too.
The only
survivor, a 21-year-woman, who cheated death by hiding under a duvet and
pretending to be dead, describe Yegorov as a ‘Madman’.
In tears,
she said:
"He was
just a madman.He walked in and shot everyone. I saw it, I heard how he moved
the bodies.
"I saw
him finishing them, heard their last gasps for air’, she said.
Vadim
Levshin, an Interior Ministry official, who confirmed the incident said it was
caused by a drunken conflict
'He lived in
Moscow where he earned money by doing temporary jobs. He came to Tver to have a
weekend break.
'The crime
was caused by a drunken conflict.'
According to
the reports, most men of his age served as teenage conscripts in the Soviet
army or later in Russian forces.
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