In Mykolaiv Oblast, a village head was detained for a fatal shooting with a shotgun of his assistant in the village council building; police are establishing the circumstances of the woman's murder, the National Police in the region reported on Tuesday, writes UNN.
It was preliminarily established that the head of one of the villages in Bashtanka district, in the village council building, during a conflict, shot his assistant, as a result of which she died.
The leadership, investigative and operational group, and operatives of the district police department, investigators of the investigative department, forensic experts of the regional police headquarters, as well as operatives of the criminal investigation department immediately arrived at the scene, as noted.
The man was detained by the police in accordance with procedural rules. The weapon of the crime - a hunting rifle - was seized.
Currently, law enforcement officers are carrying out a set of urgent investigative actions aimed at establishing all the circumstances of the incident.