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Lviv – Yaroslav Mazurok, the suspected killer of three security guards in the Karavan shopping center (Kyiv), is still in Ukraine, Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko has said. 

“We are receiving a lot of reports, and most of them indicate that this man is in Ukraine,” he said at a press conference in Lviv on Tuesday.

Zakharchenko said that the police were receiving reports on this case from various sources. The minister thanked all Ukrainian citizens who are providing information.

“The reports are coming from different sources, and a part of them are interesting. But I cannot tell you for obvious reasons what this information is about,” he said.

When asked whether it was expedient to put Mazurok on the international wanted list due to reports that he is on Ukrainian territory, Zakharchenkio explained that this was a standard procedure. He said that some time after a suspect is put on the national wanted list, he is automatically put on the international wanted list, and was done in this case.

While commenting on statements by Mazurok’s relatives in the media that they are not sure that it was him who shot at security guards, the minister said that all these doubts would be dispelled when the suspect is arrested, questioned and the police analyze the information received.

On Tuesday, Zakharchenko attended in Lviv the opening of a new building of the Sykhiv district department of police. According to the minister, it is the most modern building of the district police department in Lviv region.

As reported, a robber shot dead three employees of a private security firm and seriously wounded another one in the Karavan shopping mall on Luhova Street in Kyiv on September 26. One of the security guards saw a visitor stealing a USB flash drive from a glass case. The guard asked the man to go to the back room, where other guards were waiting. In the room the man pulled out a gun and started shooting, killing three security guards on the spot and seriously wounding a fourth. The attacker then fled the scene.

The Obolon District Police Office has opened a criminal case on the incident. The suspect was put on the wanted lists in Russia and Belarus

Executive Director of Karavan Serhiy Kyslenko promised UAH 100,000 for assistance in finding the suspect.

On October 5, Ukrainian Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko stated that the killer of three security guards from the Karavan shopping mall in Kyiv was Yaroslav Mazurok, a native of Lviv region, born in 1974, who previously worked at private security firms.