A 43-year-old Tajik man grabbed a gun, shot dead two security officers and wounded a civilian at Moldova's main international airport on Friday after being denied entry, authorities said.
He was himself injured and apprehended, police said, in an incident that briefly grounded flights at Chisinau International Airport.
"We heard some guns shooting while we were already evacuated from the airport in the middle of runaway, we were asked to hide behind the technical buildings there," she told Reuters by phone. The two killed were a border guard and an airport security officer, President Maia Sandu said, offering condolences.
Shevelyova, 48, a Ukrainian executive who had been waiting to board a flight to Milan, said that passengers were not initially told why they had to evacuate.
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