Colleagues beat the sailor in Primorye

Two colleagues beat the sailor on the ship of the Pacific Fleet Marshal Shaposhnikov, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the first rank of the first rank Roman Martov. The victim was taken to the hospital.

“A fight arose between the servicemen on the ship because of the attempt of one of them to make the other to do the work instead of themselves. The 23-year-old sailor Mikhail Balov received a closed head injury and fracture of the jaw as a result of a fight,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

According to him, now the victim sailor is in the hospital, where examination and treatment undergoes. His condition is satisfactory. The fleet command maintains contact with his parents.

"On the fact of beating, a criminal case has been instituted under the article" Violation of the authorized rules of relations between military personnel. "An investigation is being conducted," Martov added.

Marshal Shaposhnikov is a large anti -submarine ship of project 1155. It is part of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy. In 2010, Marshal Shaposhnikov performed a mission to combat Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden. Sailors of the ship freed the Moscow University tanker, captured by pirates.