Russian cop kills 3 after birthday party row

MOSCOW: A Russian police major went on a killing spree at a Moscow supermarket yesterday, leaving three people dead and at least six injured, investigators said, in the latest blow to the force's standing.

Major Denis Yevsyukov, head of police of the southern Moscow district of Tsaritsyno, had been celebrating his birthday in a cafe and apparently argued with his wife before embarking on what proved to be a night of havoc.

Returning home from the cafe, he donned his policeman's coat and went out again, taking a lift in an unofficial private taxi, the prosecutor general's investigative committee said in a statement.