BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

18/07/2008

Belarusian fighter Shkraba found dead in his apartment

MINSK. July 18 (Interfax) - Famous Belarusian fighter Vitaly Shkraba has been found dead in his apartment in Soligorsk in the Minsk region, chairman of the Belarusian Professional Boxing Organization Eduard Dubivsky said.

"Shkraba was found dead with a knife in the chest in his apartment in Soligorsk," Dubovsky told Interfax on Friday.

"Shkraba's mother found the dead body of her son in a locked apartment," he said.

"The Soligorsk police department thinks that this was a suicide," Dubovsky said.

Shkraba is Belarus' boxing champion. He fought Nikolai Valuyev of Russia, he said.

Source:

http://www.interfax.com/3/412331/news.aspx

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