Conscript Reportedly Held in 8 Killings

Police arrested a 19-year-old Russian conscript on suspicion that he killed eight soldiers on a military train in southern Russia, news agencies said. Oleg Dovshenko was arrested at a train station in the Penza region, where he had been called up by the army, the Interfax news agency said. Dovshenko and the dead soldiers had been assigned to guard the train, which carried military hardware. Seven of the victims were shot at close range. The other, a captain, had been strangled and thrown from the train as it traveled Friday from southern Russia to the Ural Mountains, the Itar-Tass news agency said.