Unknown assailants has attacked an Armenian man in Russian St. Petersburg, Fontanka reported.

Three strangers in masks attacked the Armenian near his home.

The wife heard a noise and screams in the stairwell, went out to look and found her husband was bleeding. He was hospitalized with multiple bruises and a fracture of the occipital bone. Moreover, doctors had to amputate his left ear.

The injured has been engaged in the meat business. He had two stores, but he lost everything. The entrepreneur still owed to suppliers and he was repeatedly threatened.

The police began to search for the attacking men. The issue of initiating a criminal case is being decided.