Aktobe police have opened a criminal case into the murder of a local woman. A suspect has been identified and placed in a temporary detention facility, and surveillance cameras captured footage of the attack, according to infohub.kz.
According to police, the suspect is a 28-year-old resident of Atyrau. Investigators preliminarily established that the man and the deceased had known each other. During a conflict that arose, he inflicted knife wounds on the woman, from which she died at the scene.
"The necessary investigative actions are currently being carried out to establish all the circumstances of the incident. The causes and motives of the crime are being clarified," law enforcement added.
The course of the investigation is under the supervision of the leadership of the Aktobe Region Police Department.
Recall that a similar case occurred in August in the Abai Region. In the village of Borodulikha, the body of a 20-year-old girl was found with numerous knife wounds. According to the preliminary version, Dilnaz met with her former boyfriend, whom she had known since school. A quarrel broke out between them. It is claimed that the girl hit him in the face, after which he pulled out a folding knife he carried in his back pocket.
According to relatives, the suspect inflicted 12 knife wounds on the deceased and also struck her several times on the head with a blunt object. After that, he allegedly tried to dispose of the body and dragged it about 32 meters, but then left it on the road.
The Abai Region Police Department reported that the pre-trial investigation has been completed. Currently, the participants in the process are familiarizing themselves with the materials of the criminal case.
Earlier, "Kursiv" wrote that in Almaty, the murder of a 61-year-old man is being investigated; he had previously been filmed being carried out of an entrance with a bag over his head. Four people were detained on suspicion of the crime. The Almaty Police Department reported that the investigation was entrusted to a specially created investigative-operational group of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.