“The suspect in the murder of a foreign student was detained in Smolensk. Employees of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Volgograd Region went there to conduct procedural actions with his participation, ”the Investigative Committee said.

The suspect - a resident of the Soviet district of the Volgograd region born in 1998 - is being transferred to Volgograd.

According to the head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Volgograd Region Svetlana Smolyaninova, the suspect was detained in a taxi. 

In the evening of June 12, in the Voroshilovsky district of Volgograd, the body of a minor student of the first year of a medical university was discovered, who died as a result of multiple stab-cut injuries. According to an agency source, the deceased was a citizen of Azerbaijan. A criminal case has been opened.