Vladivostok Novosti Company
October 16, 1997

Crime Chronicle

The Vladivostok News

Boy killed in gun accident


A man target practicing with an illegal gun accidentally shot and killed a 14-year-old boy at a taiga resort 100 kilometers from Nakhodka recently. The boy and a group of other children were looking for bullets from the pneumatic guns scattered behind targets at the resort’s shooting range when a businessman was using the range. The Nakhodka man did not see the teen, and killed him instantly. Police are investigating the death, because the killer was illegally using a non-pneumatic gun on the range, police alleged.

Kids use morgue’s skull as soccer ball


Police caught children in Nakhodka using a human skull for a soccer ball recently, authorities reported. The officer at the scene took the unusual ball and asked where the children had found it. They replied that they had broken into the city morgue and stole the skull, which the morgue had been keeping for educational purposes. It was the skull of a homeless man.
Other materials of this Issue:
Business Chronicle
Krai gets tough on back taxes
Krai protects foregin investors
Krai wants home-grown hops
Marketing makeup
Trade port to issue stock
Cosmo may cause riots
Former mental patient axes neighbor to death
Hospital funding dries up
Synagogue wants its home back
Teacher visits US
US cops: Crack down on cash crimes
`As if this were a zone of disaster caused by Nazdratenko`
Krai Duma reverses decree against mayor
News in Brief
Critic warns of pending nuclear sub disaster
Scientists fear cuts
Honesty can get you down
Story ignored reforms in the Trans-Siberian
Baley story shows `under side` of Russia
Religion reply shows ignorance
Can`t take communism out of boys
Thinking small helps in troubled times
Orchestra`s music enchants
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