Man held over family massacre
Russian police have arrested a man suspected of killing and dismenbering his six young children along with his wife and mother .
The suspect , Oleg Belov , was wounded by police gunfire while resisting arrest and remained in stable condition yesterday after surgery , said health officials . The federal investigative committee said the dismembered remains of the children , all under the age of six , and his pregnant wife , were discovered on Tuesday in the family's apartment in Nizhny Novgorod . At s separate location , police found remains of a woman believed to be his mother . Police arrested the suspect late on Tuesday in the Vladimir region , where he was hiding in his mother - in -law's home .Police suspect he planned to kill her too.