Feb. 6 (UPI) -- A senior general in Russia's military intelligence was seriously wounded Friday after being shot multiple times in a residential building in a district in the northwest of Moscow.
Authorities said they had launched an attempted murder and weapons trafficking investigation after several shots were fired at Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev by an unknown assailant who then fled the scene.
Alekseyev is in the hospital in a serious condition.
Russian Investigative Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said investigators and forensic experts from the Moscow branch of the agency were working at the scene gathering evidence, including examining CCTV footage and interviewing witnesses.
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