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Bishkek Actress Beaten To Death


BISHKEK -- An actress of the Chingiz Aitmatov Russian Drama Theater has been beaten to death in Bishkek.

Police said on December 2 that Oksana Gogol was attacked by unknown assailants in the center of the Kyrgyz capital early in the morning of December 1.

She was immediately rushed to the National Hospital in Bishkek, where she died later.

No more details are known at this time.

Investigations have been launched into the incident.

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