Russian roulette marriage debate goes fatally wrong as guest shoots himself

By Andrew Osborn in Moscow 151PM GMT twenty-three March 2010

Previous of Images Next The gunman, a 33 year-old Chechen man, insists he was certain that he had emptied the pistol"s cover Russian weddings are notoriously inebriated and infrequently violent, with fist fights not odd The second man pulls the trigger and rught away collapses to the building

A home video of the marriage in Astrakhan, southern Russia, shows a grinning crony of the husband suddenly pulling a pistol from his waistband, putting it to his church and muscle action the trigger. The gun emits usually a clicking receptive to advice and the smiling gunman asks who else wants to try his luck.

Another guest is shown receiving up the offer, but this time the pretence goes wrong.

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The second man pulls the trigger and rught away collapses to the building as the gun releases a rubber bullet in to his skull at point-blank range. He is right away reported to be fighting for his life.

The gunman, a 33 year-old Chechen man, insists he was certain that he had emptied the pistol"s cover of each bullet and says he usually longed for to inform the wedding. But internal military do not hold him and have non-stop a rapist review in to the comfortless incident.

Russian weddings are notoriously inebriated and infrequently violent, with fist fights not uncommon.

The origins of Russian roulette are unclear, but it is thought to have proposed in the nineteenth century when sadistic Russian jail guards forced inmates to fool around and gamble on the outcome.