Ambassador attacked: suspects quizzed
Published: 22 August, 2006, 09:54
Kenyan security services are questioning suspects believed responsible for an attack on Russia’s ambassador there, Valery Yegoshkin. The envoy was attacked by two men when he stopped on a highway some 50 kilometres from the capital, Nairobi.
They stabbed him in the back, robbed him and fled. Yegoshkin was taken to hospital.
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