Sex shop shooting 'follows row'

The gunman reportedly asked for a refund and compensation

A man complaining that impotence tablets he bought did not work has shot and injured a saleswoman at a north Moscow sex shop, Russian media report.

He drew a pistol and shot the woman at least once in the heat of a row over tablets he had apparently bought the day before, a police source said.

The saleswoman was being treated in hospital where her condition was not immediately clear.

Police in the Russian capital are hunting for her attacker.

He entered the shop on Angarskaya St at around 1800 (1500 GMT) on Wednesday, complaining the tablets he had bought "didn't help" and demanding both a refund and compensation, an unnamed Moscow police source told Interfax news agency.

When the saleswoman refused his demands and an argument erupted, he produced the gun and shot her once before fleeing from the shop.

Ria-Novosti news agency, again quoting an unnamed police source, reports that the 30-year-old woman was hit by two shots from the pistol.