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| Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia |
| Police Chief, His 3 Children Shot Dead |
| 2006-06-09 |
| Six people, three of them children, were killed in an attack on a car which carried the head of the OMON special police force in the Russian Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, Russian news agencies reported on Friday. The car, carrying the commander of OMON special police of Ingushetia Musa Nalgiyev, came under fire in the town of Karabulak Friday morning, the Interfax news agency reported, quoting a source in the local police directorate. “As far as we know, Nalgiyev was going from his home to his office. At 8:55 a.m. Moscow time, unknown assailants with automatic weapons opened fire on his car,” the source said. The ITAR-TASS news agency reported that Nalgiyev traveled with three of his children and two bodyguards. All of them died in the attack. Police have launched a special operation to find the attackers, the agencies said. Also Friday, the deputy administrator in a village near the border with war-torn Chechnya, was killed in a drive-by shooting, the regional branch of Russia’s Interior Ministry said. |
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