On the Winter Irkutsk train, a 37 year old police officer escorting the train shot himself in the temple with his service weapon. His partner found him still alive, but he died in the station hospital in Polovina without regaining consciousness. The cause is still unknown, investigators are determining the circumstances of the tragedy.

Yesterday, a 37-year-old police officer escorting the Zima-Irkutsk train went into the non-working vestibule of one of the cars and fired a shot into his temple from his service weapon, the press service of the East Siberian Transport Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation reports
A little later, his partner found him, still alive. At Polovina station, the injured man was taken to the hospital, where he died without regaining consciousness. The reason why the man decided to take his own life is still unknown. He is survived by a 13-year-old son.
At the moment, an investigation has been launched, and the circumstances of the incident are still being checked.