A criminal “drama” has occurred in Salavat, Russia.

A group of masked men came to an auto service, fired at seven Armenians, and one of them died as a result.

It was found out that the casualty was a local businessman, along with his friends.

All of them were hospitalized in serious condition.

The victims are A. Sargsyan, A. Voskanyan, T. Voskanyan, S. Grigoryan, M. Malomyan, A. Avetyan, and A. Akulyan.

But according to the latest data, A. Sargsyan, to whom the aforesaid auto service belonged, underwent surgery at the Salavat hospital, but he died from the gunshot wound to his head.

“All the circumstances of the incident are being ascertained,” informed the LifeNews source from the local law enforcement.

The said Russian news website and TV found out, however, that this shooting was preceded by a traffic dispute that had taken place several hours before the incident in the auto service.

German prosecutors said Thursday, Dec 18 that they had arrested three Turkish men accused of spying on compatriots in Germany for Turkish intelligence, but Ankara denied that the suspects were linked to the National Intelligence Organization (MİT), Hurriyet Daily News reported.

The federal prosecutor’s office said two of the suspects – identified in line with German privacy rules only as Muhammed Taha G. and Göksel G. – were arrested Wednesday at Frankfurt airport. The third, Ahmet Duran Y., was arrested at his home in western Germany.

Muhammed Taha G. is accused of handling the other two as agents, and they collected information for him on Turks in Germany as well as their “organizational structures,” prosecutors said in a statement.

They did not elaborate or say when the alleged spying took place, but said arrest warrants were issued on Nov 11.

The suspects were ordered to be remanded in custody pending a possible indictment.

Turkish security officials, who spoke to daily Hürriyet on condition of anonymity, said the three suspects had no links to MİT or the Prime Ministry. The same sources stressed that arrests came soon after media outlets affiliated to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) alleged that the Turkish Cooperation and Development Agency (TİKA) was being used by MİT to recruit agents in Germany. They also noted that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had recently slammed the European Union regarding a Dec 14 police operation on the Gülen community in Turkey, according to the HDN.

Germany is home to a large Turkish community.

In August, Turkey summoned Germany’s ambassador and demanded an explanation over a German magazine report that Germany’s foreign intelligence agency listed Turkey, a NATO ally, as a target for intelligence gathering.

German officials refused to confirm the report, the HDN says

Masked men shoot 7 Armenians in Russia, one dead

3 Turkish men arrested in Germany over spying charges