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Russian army deserter commits suicide after crossing south-eastern border
Shots fired at police in high-speed chase
In a curious and ultimately rather tragic incident on Thursday night and Friday morning, a Russian soldier crossed the Finnish-Russian border illegally and caused a major police alert in the south-east of the country before he took his own life early this morning.
The serviceman, armed with an automatic weapon, crossed the border at Vainikkala late on Thursday evening, apparently by jumping aboard a moving freight train.
The first information of the incident came when a report was passed to the Lappeenranta police at around 11pm on Thursday night that a man had broken into an apartment in Vainikkala. The occupants said that the man had threatened to kill them. They managed to escape, however, and alerted the police. A few hours later the man left the apartment, stole a car, and set off westwards in the direction of Luumäki.
Police later got wind of his whereabouts as he tried to shoot the lock off the door of a service station in Lauritsala. As the police arrived on the scene, the soldier took off again at high speed in the car, firing several shots at the pursuing police officers. Nobody was injured.
After a chase during which his car exceeded speeds of 160 km/hour (100mph), he collided with a truck in Luumäki and then set off on foot into the woods. His body was later found, and first reports indicate he shot himself. A couple of dozen police officers were involved in the operation to surround the man in the woods, and Highway 6 was temporarily closed in both directions around Luumäki.
The soldier has been identified as 19-year-old Sergei Vladimirovich Strotshin, and according to Russian sources in Vyborg (Viipuri) he was a normal conscript.
He was not known to have had any criminal background or a tendency to violence, although he was regarded as somewhat impulsive. The Russian authorities have not thus far been able to give any explanation for the illegal entry, according to Major Kimmo Elomaa of Finland's Frontier Guard.
