11.02 Russian Man Kills 3, Burns House Down in Drunken Row – Police

NOVOKUZNETSK, February 10 (RIA Novosti) – A Russian man killed three people and set their home on fire after being insulted during a drunken quarrel in a small Siberian town, investigators said Monday. 

The 25-year-old suspect stabbed to death the man and woman who occupied the house, as well as another man who was living with them, in an alcohol-fueled rage late on Saturday night, investigators in the city of Belovo said. 

The suspect, who authorities said had a prior criminal record, then set the house ablaze and ran away. He was arrested hours later. 

It was not clear from the investigators’ statement what insults had triggered the argument.