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A man covered in blood was reportedly dumped in front of the Police Department’s Building Protection Agency at Khabarovskaya Street July 14.

According to a foreigner who witnessed the incident, a four-wheel drive sports vehicle sped up to the agency’s gate around noon. A door opened, and men in the car pushed the victim, who was alive but wounded, onto the street.

“It was all very rushed,” said the witness, who asked not to be identified. “They pushed the guy onto the pavement and immediately drove away.”

When no one on the crowded street took action, the witness went into the agency’s main building and told officers what had happened.

Agency Director Sergei Kalistratov said the man was a bum who had been stabbed in the back. An ambulance brought him to the emergency room, where he made a full recovery and identified his attackers, Kalistratov said.

The witness, however, did not believe that the man was a bum. “His outfit didn’t point to his being a homeless person,” the witness said.

“He had a haircut, and he was wearing nice clothes.”

Victor Michko, head of the Internal Affairs Department, said that the man’s injuries were self-inflicted, and that the case was not being investigated. “The other story is a rumor,” he said.

But the witness said the man could not have injured himself. “His back was covered in blood. I don’t see how anyone could do that [to himself].”

The police press center had no information about the incident, representatives said.