The men killed in Armavir city of Russia’s Krasnodar krai weren’t Armenians, as the Russian media outlets claim, the Armenian community representatives of Krasnodar told Armenian News – NEWS.am.  

“Those killed were Azeris, not Armenians,” the community representatives noted.

According to the preliminary information, entrepreneurs dealing with wholesale supply of goods from Moscow to Kuban fell victim to unidentified persons, DNI24 reports. The alarm was received from the residents of one of the houses on Lenin Street.

Upon arriving at the scene, the police found bodies with firearm wounds in the elevator. One of the killed men, born in 1966, turned out to have lived in that house. His companion, whose identity has not yet been confirmed, was much younger than him.

As a result of questioning of people who closely knew the victim, it turned out that prior to his death the latter had received a large sum of money and was going to head for a new consignment of goods. A criminal case has been launched into the case.