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A sketch has been released in a bid to track down a serial killer believed to have a hatred of car drivers.

Police say they are investigating around 14 deaths which they suspect may all be down to the same person.

In each of the cases the motorists were all murdered with a single bullet to the head.

Nothing was stolen and there is no apparent motive – leading police to believe they were carried out by the same driver-hating killer in the Russian capital Moscow in the last few years.

In each of the cases the drivers were murdered but nothing was stolen from them and all of the killings were apparently motiveless, having happened without any road rage incidents or any other apparent provocation. In addition, each of the drivers had been killed by a single bullet to the head.

The latest case was in June this year when 53-year-old Alexey Tsiganov was shot dead near Domodedovo airport.

The same month Albert Yusupov was killed in Fomingskoe village on the outskirts of Moscow.

Two pensioners were also killed in May.

Police did not say how they have managed to put together the image of the man they wanted to quiz about the murders, but have appealed to anyone who may know who it is to get in touch urgently.

Sources close to the investigation have said ballistic experts believe the same gun - a nine calibre Russian-made Makarov - was used in all the cases, a fact discovered after similarities between the murders were noticed and an investigation was carried out.

Psychologist Mikhail Vinogradov, who was been drawing up a profile of the killer for police, said: "The murderer in each case did not take money or other belongings of the victims and nor it seems did he know his victims.

“It all leads towards the idea that we have a serial killer. It is also typical that he mostly kills in one area on the outskirts of Moscow, where it is likely he knows the area."