On 30 June 2023, a man shot and killed two people and injured another at the Chișinău International Airport in Moldova after he was denied entry into the country.
The Moldovan news website NewsMaker, citing unnamed officials, said a man took a gun from a border police officer after he was taken to a no-entry zone.
[3] Additionally, Moldovan President Maia Sandu said that state institutions had been put on high alert and expressed condolences to the families and relatives of the victims, and also added that the shooter was a foreign citizen who was denied entry into the country by authorities for security reasons.
[7] Later, Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean stated that the attacker was a 43-year-old citizen of Tajikistan who had been banned from entering Moldova for security reasons.
[3] Tajikistani authorities later identified him as Rustam Ashurov, a member of an "organised criminal group" that had kidnapped a bank executive in Dushanbe a week before.