“A police officer at the MM GU of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow detained a suspect of causing serious bodily harm,” RIA Novosti quotes the head of the UIOS OS of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, colonel of the internal service Vladimir Vasenin.

It is clarified that citizens at the Shabolovskaya metro station turned to a police officer and pointed to a man who injured a pensioner with an object that looked like a knife.

The suspect is 26 years old, he is an immigrant from neighboring countries.

Earlier it became known that a passenger in the Moscow metro in a train car attacked a pensioner and inflicted several stab wounds on him.