MOSCOW. Feb 12 (Interfax) - Five persons have been detained in Dagestan on suspicion of killing children of a police officer, a Russian Interior Ministry source told Interfax.
"Five persons have been detained on suspicion of killing two sons of a Dagestani police officer," he said.
Two sons of a Dagestani police officer were killed at their home, a source at the republican department of the Russian Investigative Committee told Interfax on Monday.
"An officer of the Derbent district extra-departmental security service found the bodies of his sons, aged 9 and 11, in his Belinji home after he and his wife had returned upon visiting friends," the source said.
He said the children had stab-wound lacerations.