Couple kills 7 homeless people to ‘clean up’ Moscow

A Russian couple allegedly carried out a string of murders targeting homeless people in Moscow to “clean up” the city, investigators said on Friday.

Moscow’s Investigative Committee said it had detained a 20-year-old man on suspicion of seven murders and a 25-year-old woman believed to have taken part in four of the killings.

“The detained man said he committed the murders with the aim of ‘cleaning up’ the city,” investigators said.

The man is suspected of committing the murders in Moscow, “choosing as his victims homeless people who were fond of drinking alcohol” and carrying out the crimes in lonely places at night, the investigators said in a statement.