Man Believed to Have Slain 7 Kills Himself
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From Times Wire Reports
A Latvian man committed suicide in a forest after shooting to death seven people with an automatic hunting rifle, police said. A dog sniffed out the body of the attacker, identified as Yuri Chubarov, 47, after a manhunt involving more than 500 people. The body was found about one mile from the scene of the shooting rampage. A local news agency reported that the killings were an apparent revenge attack, as the man had accused his victims of setting fire to his house.
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