Taraz citizen drove with corpse in front seat

On February 24 Kazakhstan road police stopped a KamAZ truck at kilometer 436 of Almaty-Tashkent road (not far from Ornek village) only to find an unidentified corps in the front seat. 47-y.o. Malik Khamidzhaevich, a citizen of Taraz (a southern city of Kazakhstan), was driving the truck. The driver had no documents for the truck he was driving and was behaving suspiciously. The police checked the truck and found a corpse of a man laying in the broad front seat of the truck, Tengrinews.kz reports citing the press-service of the Road Police Department of Zhambyl Oblast Interior Department.The corpse was identified as a citizen of Kolkent village of South-Kazakhstan oblast, born in 1966. He had a gunshot wound in his belly. A 16-caliber Winchester registered to the driver was laying next to the corpse.A criminal case on murder charges was initiated. The investigation is currently in process.According to KTK TV channel, the driver Malik Khamidzhaevich was driving from Karaganda. He told the police officers that he did not know the dead person, that he picked up the corpse along the way and did not know what to do with it next.