Tajikistan Denies Russian Claim of Ukrainian Embassy Recruiting Mercenaries
Foreign Ministry Rejects Allegations, Citing Lack of Evidence
Tajikistan’s foreign ministry on Saturday rejected a claim by a top Russian security official that Ukraine’s embassy in the Tajik capital was recruiting mercenaries to fight against Russia.
“We note that this assertion by the Russian official has no basis to it,” Russian news agencies quoted Tajik Foreign Ministry spokesperson Shokhin Samadi as saying.
Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, a top ally of President Vladimir Putin, said on Wednesday, without providing evidence, that “Ukrainian special services” were behind last month’s deadly concert shooting near Moscow and that the Ukrainian embassy in Tajikistan was recruiting fighters, state media reported.
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Ukraine has denied having anything to do with the attack that killed at least 144 people, and the United States has said Islamic State militants bore sole responsibility.
2 killed, 7 injured in horrific shootout at Florida shopping mall
Two people were killed while seven others sustained injuries in a horrific gunfight inside a Florida shopping mall, ABC News reported Sunday.
According to the Doral police, an altercation early Saturday at a Miami-area “commercial establishment” broke out and a person pulled out a firearm.
The fight broke out at a Martini bar which resulted in a security guard being shot and killed by the gunman. However, he who was later killed by security personnel in a fierce gunfight.
The incident occurred on Saturday at CityPlace Doral.
One man suspected of arguing with the gunman has been taken into custody, NBC News reported.
The security guard working at the facility intervened during the fight which resulted in him getting shot.
Eye witness Peter Andres Jordan said: “You start hearing shots. And it wasn’t one. It was one after another, after another, after another.”
As per the Miami-Dade Police, they responded to the scene and a gun fight broke out. One officer was shot in “his lower extremity” and seven other bystanders were wounded which includes six men and a woman.
Two of the bystanders were listed in critical condition while the officer was listed as stable after being shot in the leg.
