A young man armed with a chainsaw and a hammer entered a shopping centre in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, and killed a woman and wounded another on Saturday evening, a spokesman for city police said. "When he took out a chainsaw, shoppers first thought it was some kind of game," Alexander Lastovsky, the police spokesman, told Reuters. He said the chainsaw and the hammer had been hidden in a guitar case which the man was carrying. "Then he cut one woman badly with the chainsaw and hit her with a hammer. At least one wounded woman was rushed to hospital, he said.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 08, 2016 19:30 UTC