Five people were killed in an attack on a shopping center in Krasnodar.

One woman was killed and four people were injured in an attack by a young man at the West Mall shopping center. One of the victims, a security guard, is in serious condition.

A young man stabbed several customers at a shopping center in Krasnodar. According to preliminary reports, one woman died. The attacker has been detained, Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs spokesperson Irina Volk announced today.

A woman died as a result of knife wounds to the stomach during an attack at a shopping center in Krasnodar. One of the security guards suffered a cut on his hand, another a cut on his upper thigh. One of the security guards is in serious condition. Preliminary reports indicate that the other victims also suffered cuts to their extremities, Baza reports.

According to the publication, the attacker is 19 years old.

Eyewitnesses say he ran into the shopping center and started looking for someone. When a security guard approached him, he stabbed him with a knife and then lunged at the men who tried to stop him. A woman, approximately 35 years old, was struck during the attack. He also detonated an improvised explosive device. The shopping center was filled with smoke.

The man who attacked a shopping center in Krasnodar with a machete claimed during his arrest that no one had paid him, according to a video published by the Telegram channel "Beware, News." "Did you think they were going to pay you for this?" he was asked. "No, I wasn't paid; I'm just tired of life," the young man said.