Russian Karate Expert Kills Two Over Lice Infection

A Russian karate expert has been charged with beating to death a 61-year-old woman and her son, whom he accused of infecting his wife and many other residents with lice.

Residents of the building share common facilities.

"No one liked them and no one talked to them," state investigator Eduard Abdullin tells a local paper, adding that the 26-year-old karate enthusiast had been drinking heavily before the attack.

"He literally beat them to death with his hands and feet," says Abdullin.

"The family were poor and drank a lot. He blamed them for infecting his wife and the entire corridor with lice."

The 58-year-old husband of the dead woman was also badly beaten, but survived.

The suspect, who studied karate for seven years, faces life in prison if convicted.

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