Several persons got injured in a mass scuffle with the participation of natives of Northern Caucasus in Moscow

A mass scuffle with the participation of natives of Northern Caucasus during which six persons got injured took place this morning in the South-West of the capital, a source in law enforcement bodies reported. Press service of the Department of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the capital mentions eight sufferers.

According to preliminary data, at about 05:00 Moscow time a group of Muscovites went to see their friend off to the army at the crossroads of Sevastopolsky prospect and Miklouho-Maclay street where a conflict between them and a group of natives of Northern Caucasus occurred that developed into a scuffle with the use of traumatic arms.

Six men aged 17 to 20 got injured, three of them hospitalized. The physicians estimate the state of one of them, a seventeen-years-old Muscovite, as grave, he was wounded in his head from traumatic arms. Two more men were taken to hospital with blows. Three of the men were rendered medical aid on-site, "Interfax" reports.

According to a representative of Press service of Moscow Department of the Ministry of Interior Affairs, three persons were wounded from traumatic arms and eight people got injured all in all, RIA "Novosti" reports.