In Korkino, a town in the Chelyabinsk region of Russia, riots broke out after a Roma teenager murdered a woman taxi driver. The 17-year-old suspect in the murder was detained.
When a crowd of people came to the house where the Roma lived, a person inside the house fired his gun at them. The shooter was arrested. He fired a firearm at two men, aged 37 and 29. The victims were taken to the hospital with injuries.
Riots broke out in Korkino on October 24 after the murder of a female taxi driver, Elena Sarafanova. According to local media reports, the taxi driver received an order from the "Gypsy neighbourhood". A conflict sparked between the passenger and the driver at some point of the ride. The passenger, a 17-year-old gypsy, pulled out a knife and stabbed the woman four times, killing her.
Some time later, when the news about the murder of the woman spread, a crowd of Korkino residents surrounded the house where, presumably, the suspected murderer lived. People started throwing rocks at the house smashing windows. Someone inside the house opened fire at the crowd, injuring two men. The people dispersed after midnight.
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In the course of the unrest, the people started turning over and setting fire to the cars that they thought belonged to gypsies. Two houses were set on fire as well.
The entrance to the town was blocked from at least one side. The riot police arrived at the scene, several rioters were arrested.