Tajik suspect in Moldova airport shooting dies

Tajik national Rustam Ashurov, who shot dead two persons at Chisinau international airport on 30 June after being denied entry to Moldova, has died.

"The suspect in the double murder at Chisinau international airport died 15 minutes ago," the Moldovan NewsMaker website reported on July 3 quoting the General Police Inspectorate.

The suspect was wounded in the incident and was taken to hospital in "very serious condition".

According to Moldova's acting Prosecutor-General Ion Munteanu, the 30 June shooting that killed two people and injured another will be investigated as a "terrorist act".

"While being escorted to the sterile area of the airport to be sent back, the man shot dead a border policeman and an airport security officer with a gun seized from a border police officer. Another person, a passenger, was injured and is receiving medical attention. Officers of the special-purpose unit Fulger detained the attacker," Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean said on Facebook after the incident.

He explained that the foreign national was denied entry to Moldova "for security reasons".