| The head of the Criminal Police of the Shali District Directorate of the Interior Ministry, Khussein Khakayev, has been shot dead in Chechnya, the Interfax news agency reports. The head of the Shali district administration, Sharip Alikhadjayev, told the agency that Khakhayev, together with his relative Musa Dishnayev, was returning home from work at about 22:00 local time on Wednesday when three gunmen in camouflage fatigues fired at them with automatic weapons. âThis happened in the town of Shali on Groznenskaya Street, near the mosque. Khakhayev sustained numerous gunshot wounds and died on the way to hospital,â the district official said. The other victim of the attack, Dishnayev, was taken to hospital in grave condition, he said. This was not the first attack on law enforcers in Shali over the past months. In early April the battalion commander of the special police force, Khamid Khadjiyev, was shot dead near his home when returning from work. |