The victims of two stabbing attacks that took place within 24 hours of each other believe that their assailants were motivated by ethnic hatred, according to a July 29, 2008 report by the Sova Information-Analytical Center. On July 25, someone stabbed an ethnic Azeri near a building off the Staro-Petergof Highway. The victim was hospitalized. The next day, a citizen of Korea was hospitalized in the city with similar stab wounds. Police are investigating the attacks.

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