A 17 -year -old boy killed five teenagers and wounded another four during a drunk stabbing wave in the Siberian Irkutsk region, police authorities said Wednesday.
Police investigators said they found the bodies inside a burned house in the city of Baikalsk, about 85 kilometers (53 miles) south of the capital city of Irkutsk.
“At some point, one of them attacked others with a knife. Four teenagers died in the place and four more were hospitalized,” the Regional Branch of the Russian Research Committee.
Three of the surviving teenagers suffered minor injuries, while one remains hospitalized in critical condition with white weapon wounds.
The accessor, who was not identified by his name, set fire to the house after the stabbing and died in the fire, said officials responsible for enforcing the law, adding that they launched a murder investment.
The governor of the Irkutsk region, Igor Kobzev, said the victims were between 13 and 16 years old. The group had met for a birthday party, Hey added.
The mayor of Baikalsk, Vasily Temgenevsky, said alcohol played a role in violence.
Health and education officials said the victims were the tenth grade students of two local schools. Regional Education Minister Maxim Parfyonov said that adolescents were part of “an still unknown community.”
Local authorities declared three days of mourning.
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