Student dies in Russia’s latest racist attack
An African student was shot dead in St Petersburg with a hunting rifle emblazoned with a swastika early yesterday in an apparently planned racist attack that has horrified Russia.
The shooting, the fourth such assault on someone from an ethnic minority in the country in a week, has been blamed on a rise in skinhead groups and the extreme right in Russia’s second largest city.
Witnesses said the gunman shot Lamzar Samba, 28, a communications student from Senegal, in the back of the neck when he and a group of foreign students were leaving the Apollo nightclub.
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