Moscow, May 30 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Two minor boys - aged 12 and 14 - in Russia's Tuva region were detained after they killed a man with a hunting rifle to steal his car, the investigative committee said Thursday.
The detained youths said they took a hunting rifle from their uncle and set off looking for a car to steal it.
They spotted a man repairing his car near a cemetery and asked him to give them a ride to the nearest village.
While the man was busy, the youths shot him in the back of his head. They dragged his body into a forest and took his car, the committee said.
--IANS/RIA Novosti
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