Video - Moscow Stabbing Death by Muslim Sets off Street Riots.

Video - Moscow Stabbing Death by Muslim Sets off Street Riots.(RT).

The stabbing death of an ethnic Russian man has ignited anger in Moscow against people from the Caucasus, with demonstrators breaking into a shopping center and storming a vegetable warehouse Sunday evening. Police detained hundreds of people.

A native of the North Caucasus, a region in southern Russia, is believed to have killed the 25-year-old man. Caucasus natives, most of whom are dark-complexioned and Muslim, work in the shopping center and at vegetable markets in the Russian capital.

Egor Shcherbakov and his girlfriend were on their way home, when the young couple were attacked by an unidentified man who stabbed Shcherbakov with a knife. Shcherbakov’s girlfriend described the attacker as a male native of the Caucasus and said that he had assaulted her boyfriend after trying to harass her.

The Investigative Committee, Russia’s main investigative agency, said in a statement that the man was killed in a dispute over his girlfriend as the couple returned home on Thursday. Investigators have questioned witnesses, the statement said. Police released a photograph of the suspect taken by a security camera, but he has not been identified.

Video streamed live on Dozhd television showed the unrest in Biryulyovo, a working-class district in far southern Moscow. Hundreds of ethnic Russians were involved in the protests, and some of them chanted nationalist slogans.

The city police department called up additional forces to try to quell the violence. Police also moved to close off a square just outside the Kremlin to prevent a repeat of 2010 riots, when thousands of nationalists and soccer fans protested the killing of an ethnic Russian during a fight between soccer fans and natives of the North Caucasus.

The number of those arrested rises to 380, police says. Those 380 detained are being questioned as witnesses in a criminal case on hooliganism, police spokesman told RIA. Given the circumstances, 30 investigators are conducting urgent investigative activities on detainees over violations of public order, the source added.

Local activists met with police representatives again, discussing the creation of voluntary people's guard in order to find the perpetrator as soon as possible. Authorities said that Moscow Police Chief Anatoly Yakunin takes investigation under personal control. A 1-million-rubble (around $31,000) bounty has been placed for the capture of the suspect. Read the full story here.