87 y.o. veteran wins knife hand-to-hand combat to save his medals.

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In Transbaikalia very old man dealt with the 35-year-old criminal who broke into his house in the village of Casanova to profit the military orders.
Late at night, a wounded pensioner with difficulty reached his neighbors. The old man, standing on the doorstep, was literally bleeding. Hand clutching the wound in his chest, barely living veteran admitted that he killed a man.

Police arrived following a call, found on the floor of Pavel Vasilyevich Veretelnikov's house a man's body.

- The investigation suggests that the veteran killed a thief in self-defense. It's preliminary found that on the night of May 21, previously convicted villager Paul P. entered the house of a veteran and demanded money and valuables, threatening him with a knife - said "Your Day" senior assistant SU IC on Transbaikalian edge Yegor ******.

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As it turned out, the villain with a knife in his hand reached into the house of lonely old man, not expecting to get an adequate resistance from ailing veteran. But the robber clearly underestimated the war hero.

Small savings for "to the death" and military awards - that's all the wealth of Pavel Vasilyevich.

But when the veteran realized he could lose his orders, he, as a young man at the front, went after the robber, ran, not even thinking about that he faced a bandit who will stop at nothing. Not expecting resistance, robber struck the old man with a knife in his chest, but the veteran contrived, snatched weapon and plunged the blade into stomach of a villain.

The wounded, bleeding old man somehow made it to the neighbors. Hardly living grandfather was taken to hospital.