Interrogee Set Himself And Officer On Fire In Shklou

The officer has 90% body burns.

On the afternoon of May 31, an emergency occurred in the Shklou District Department of Internal Affairs. According to local residents, a man set fire to the building's office during interrogation, the district department officer received severe burns and was hospitalised.

Three unrelated sources told zerkalo.io journalists about it. The incident took place on Tuesday, May 31.

— There is a discussion in the city, eyewitnesses say that the man was called for interrogation, and he set himself and the policeman on fire. There was a fire in the office, there were traces of fire on the building,” wrote an employee of one of the Shklou enterprises. — My fellow saw burnt stuff and a bunch of onlookers near the police department.

According to him, the policeman received burns on 90% of his body and was taken to the district hospital. Shklou Central District Hospital staff confirmed that the police officer born in 1995 was admitted there with 90% burns on his body.

“He is in intensive care, and the one who set the fire seems to have died,” the hospital said.

Another source also spoke about the fact that the man who set the fire died. According to the source, the man took gasoline into the building. This is the only information about him at the moment.

According to the news publisher, the wounded officer's name is Dzmitry Khadarenka, he is 27 years old. In May 2018, a publication about the work of the Shklou District Department of Internal Affairs was published on the website of the regional newspaper Udarny Front, it mentioned the detective of the criminal investigation department Dzmitry Khadarenka. Then he said that he got a job in the regional department in August 2017 just after the Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. “I can say that I made my childhood dream,” he commented.

Five months later, in October 2018, Dzmitry Khadarenka was awarded a diploma from the Internal Affairs Directorate, Mahiliu Regional Executive Committee, at the celebration of the anniversary of the Criminal Investigation Department of Belarus. He was in the rank of a senior police lieutenant. He also received a diploma from the head of the Department of Internal Affairs in the fall of 2020.

It is also reported that another police officer could have been in the room during the fire. He's unharmed.