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The guard that survived the shooting in the Karavan shopping mall in Kyiv has identified as the killer the body of a man found in Kyiv on November 7, the Segodnya newspaper reported citing its sources.

“On Saturday, a source in the Interior Ministry said that the sole survivor in Karavan shooting spree was called in to identify the body of Mazurok. According to Segodnya’s information, he recognized the man,” the newspaper said.

As reported, the body of a man resembling Yaroslav Mazurok, the suspect in the murder of guards at a Karavan shopping center, was found in Kyiv on November 7.

According to preliminary police inquiry findings, the man committed suicide. The police say that they took a sample of the man’s DNA to determine whether he was indeed Mazurok.

According to the TSN news program on the 1+1 TV channel, Mazurok’s wife Liudmyla identified the man, whose body was found in Kyiv, as her husband.

On November 8, the police said that the fingerprints of the man are identical to fingerprints taken during the inspection of the murder scene.

According to the ministry, law enforcers found in a pocket of the deceased man the passport of Yaroslav Mazurok, a technical certificate for a Jawa motorbike, as well as Mazurok’s a driver’s license and identification certificate.

The police also found a gun with one spent cartridge in the cylinder.

On September 26, a robber shot dead three employees of a private security firm and seriously wounded another one in the Karavan shopping mall in Kyiv. The attacker fled the scene.

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.