MOSCOW, July 27 (RIA Novosti) – The mayor of Feodosiya, a Black Sea port on Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, died Saturday hours after an unidentified assailant shot and robbed him, Ukrainian media reported.
The assailant used a shotgun to shoot Oleksandr Bartenev in the back, but the mayor fought back and wrestled with the attacker, who then managed to run away with his handbag, Crimean police chief Mikhailo Slepanyov told the UNIAN news agency.
The 57-year-old mayor died in hospital, the Sobytiya Kryma news website said.
Bartenev’s neighbor told Segodnya.ua news website that they woke up after a “loud bang” and then saw the mayor bleeding on the stairway.
A former military engineer and businessman, Bartenev was elected the mayor of Feodosiya in 2008. The Black Sea port of 70,000 is a popular resort that attracts tens of thousands of tourists every year.
updates with mayor's death
