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High-Ranking Russian Officer Shot to Death
A high-ranking Russian air force officer was shot and killed on a road in western Russia on Sunday, a police official said. Maj.-Gen. Konstantin Dementyev, deputy commander of the air force's strategic aviation division, and his driver died after their car was strafed by automatic weapons fire, the Interfax-Military News Agency reported. A second passenger was injured and hospitalized, it said. A duty officer in the police department of the Smolensk region, 250 miles west of Moscow, confirmed the report but declined to give any details of the killing other than the site: near the village of Arkhipovka on the main highway linking the Russian capital with the Belarusian capital, Minsk.Posted by: Fred 2004-11-01 |
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