“The bodies of a man, two women and a little boy with gunshot wounds were found in the apartment of one of the households in Novoshakhtinsk.

Another child (a young girl) with a gunshot wound in serious condition was taken to a medical facility.

Doctors are fighting for her life,” the agency said in a statement.

The deputy prosecutor of the Rostov region, Sergei Kapitonov, and the prosecutor of Novoshakhtinsk, Vladislav Bondarenko, left for the scene.

On July 15, in Novoshakhtinsk (Rostov region), an unknown person killed four members of the same family.

Investigators opened a criminal case on the murder.