CHISINAU. July 4 (Interfax) - Tajik citizen Rustam Ashurov, who shot and killed two people at Chisinau International Airport on Friday evening, died at hospital on Monday night, the press service for the Moldovan General Police Inspectorate said.
Ashurov, 43, was at hospital in Chisinau guarded by police officers. He sustained at least 10 gunshot wounds when a special task force unit detained him at the Chisinau airport.
On Monday, the Moldovan Prosecutor's General Office issued an arrest warrant for Ashurov. A Tajik investigative group arrived in Moldova on the same day to help the investigation.
It was reported earlier that on June 30 a border police officer and an airport security officer were killed in an armed incident at the Chisinau airport.
Ashurov was denied entry to Moldova. When he was being taken to a sterile zone to be expelled to Turkey from where he arrived in Chisinau, he took a handgun from a border guard and killed two people. A riot police unit wounded and neutralized him. The staff and passengers of the Chisinau airport were evacuated.
The perpetrator was identified as Tajik citizen Rustam Ashurov. In Tajikistan, he was charged with abduction of Orienbank First Deputy Chairman Shuhrat Ismatulloev. Once a criminal case was opened and an investigative team was set up, Ashurov fled to Moldova via Turkey, planning to hide in the European Union.