Police in the central Asian nation of Kazakhstan are searching
for suspects Tuesday in connection to eight people found dead in a
national park.
Russian news agency Interfax quoted Kazakh Interior Minister
Kalmukhanbet Kasymov as saying some of the bodies found suffered knife
injuries, suggesting murder.
According to police, both men and women were killed in the park, and robbery did not appear to be a motive.
Seven bodies with stab wounds, including two burned bodies, were found on Monday in the Ile-Alatau national park in southern Almaty Province, near the border with China and Kyrgyzstan. Searchers discovered two of the bodies in the home of a forester living in the heavily-wooded Karasaisky region, about 700 kilometers (435 miles) southeast of the Kazakh capital Astana. Five of the bodies found so far have reportedly been identified.
An additional body was discovered Tuesday, bringing the total to eight.
According to Interior Minister Kasymov, it was possible the killer or killers knew the victims.
This isn't the first time violence has haunted the region. In late May, a forest ranger and 14 border guards were killed and burned at a remote outpost along the Chinese border in the same region. One of the border guards deployed at the outpost was later found alive and charged with killing the 15 men. The case led to a newsreader for the popular Almaty-based Channel 31 television station resigning after refusing to broadcast a report about the guard's alleged confession to the killing spree.
Located in central Asia, Kazakhstan achieved independence following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It is the second-largest of the former Soviet Republics after Russia, and one of the least densely populated countries in the world. Around 17 million people live in an area encompassing more than 2.7 million square kilometers (1 million square miles).
bm/mz (AFP, dpa)
According to police, both men and women were killed in the park, and robbery did not appear to be a motive.
Seven bodies with stab wounds, including two burned bodies, were found on Monday in the Ile-Alatau national park in southern Almaty Province, near the border with China and Kyrgyzstan. Searchers discovered two of the bodies in the home of a forester living in the heavily-wooded Karasaisky region, about 700 kilometers (435 miles) southeast of the Kazakh capital Astana. Five of the bodies found so far have reportedly been identified.
An additional body was discovered Tuesday, bringing the total to eight.
According to Interior Minister Kasymov, it was possible the killer or killers knew the victims.
This isn't the first time violence has haunted the region. In late May, a forest ranger and 14 border guards were killed and burned at a remote outpost along the Chinese border in the same region. One of the border guards deployed at the outpost was later found alive and charged with killing the 15 men. The case led to a newsreader for the popular Almaty-based Channel 31 television station resigning after refusing to broadcast a report about the guard's alleged confession to the killing spree.
Located in central Asia, Kazakhstan achieved independence following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It is the second-largest of the former Soviet Republics after Russia, and one of the least densely populated countries in the world. Around 17 million people live in an area encompassing more than 2.7 million square kilometers (1 million square miles).
bm/mz (AFP, dpa)
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