Daily Crime Report

MOSCOW, February 25 (RIA Novosti)

Below is a summary of crimes registered in Russia and the CIS on Wednesday, February 25

* Police in Moscow are searching for a man in connection with the brutal murder of his 77-year-old mother, a police source told RIA Novosti

* Three unidentified men stole jewelry worth some 20,000 million rubles ($560,000) from a shop in the southern Russian city of Stavropol, a spokesman for the local police department said

* A forensic examination established that two sisters aged 5 and 10, who were found dead on Monday in the Volga city of Togliatti, were strangled

* A resident of the Far Eastern city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky was arrested on suspicion of raping his 13-year-old daughter, the city's high-ranking investigator said

* A search is underway for a hit-and-run driver who ran over a child in eastern Moscow. The girl, believed to be between seven and nine years old, was rushed to hospital in a serious condition

* An unidentified attacker stole a bag containing some 140,000 rubles ($4,000) from an Uzbek woman in southwestern Moscow, a police source said

* A search is underway for a burglar who stole a safe from the office of a Moscow company, a police source said. The exact value of stolen objects is unknown