The author of the June 30 armed attack at the Chisinau International Airport, which resulted in the death of a border police officer and an aviation security officer, died in the hospital, IPN reports. The General Police Inspectorate said the person who committed a double murder at the airport died shortly after 10pm on Monday.

The attacker was injured in an exchange of fires during the siege. He was a former policeman. He worked for seven years in the bodies of the Ministry of the Interior of Tajikistan and was fired for criminal behaviors and actions. In 2013, he committed a crime in Tajikistan. He served his sentence, but was released before time. When he reached Chisinau from Turkey, he wasn’t in the international database of wanted persons. He was banned access to Moldova because he was unable to explain why he came and for how long. In over two hours, when he was being accompanied to the plane to be sent back, he hit the border policeman who was escorting him and grabbed his gun, shooting dead him and also an aviation security officer.

A national day of mourning was decreed in Moldova for Tuesday, July 4, to commemorate the two victims. President Maia Sandu signed a decree to confer posthumously the Military Merit medal on Igor Ciofu, lieutenant colonel in reserve of the State Guard and Protection Service, and on Sergey Munteanu, chief deputy agent of the Border Police of the Ministry of the Interior.