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Islamic teacher gunned down in Dagestan
Masked gunmen gunned down an Islamic teacher after bursting into his home in the republic of Dagestan, the latest such killing in the region, investigators said on Friday.In a statement the Investigative Committee said, "At around 11:00 pm on Thursday, unidentified attackers in masks entered the house of 32-year-old Magomed Zakaryayev, the teacher at the madrasa in the village of Nechayevka and fired several shots." Zakaryayev died at the scene. A murder and arms trafficking probe has been launched over the killing. A spokesman for the Committee's Dagestan branch said, "Investigators suspect the crime was committed by members of an illegal armed group due to the religious activity of the murdered man." Posted by: ryuge 2014-04-12 |
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