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Boy, 16, screaming 'Allahu Akbar' is shot dead by cops after knife attack on police officer in Muslim-majority Russian region |
2020-10-31 |
- [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The boy was armed with a knife and Molotov cocktail at Kukmor, Tatarstan police station
- He stabbed a police officer three times before another officer shot him dead
- Local media named the teenage attacker as Russian Vitaly Antopov
- In a chilling video before the attack, Antipov told how he intended to destroy a cafe which he saw as sinful and 'devilish'
- He had tried to set fire to a district police building and stabbed the police officer while being arrested
- Antipov was reported to be from the Altai region in Siberia and had a job working in a halal cafe named Barakat
- Its owner Marat Zamaleev had served 14 years for sabotage and the Illegal manufacture of weapons
- Russian investigators said they were treating the attack as attempted terrorism
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