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Count Dooku's sister kidnapped | |
2005-08-12 | |
A woman who is said to be a sibling of a notorious Chechen warlord, Doku Umarov, has gone missing in Russiaâs restive province of Chechnya, the Interfax news agency reported citing its source in the local administration. Natasha Khumadova, a resident of Urus-Martan, was abducted in the early hours of Friday by unknown gunmen, the republican Interior Ministry reported. Khumadova is a sister to Doku Umarov, a notorious rebel leader who is believed to have been involved in a number of heinous terrorist attacks, the police reported. The authorities suspect him of assisting Shamil Basayev in organizing a blast in Znamenskoye where 14 people were killed after a UAZ truck hit a mine earlier this summer. A source in the Urus-Martan district administration told Interfax on Friday that several armed people broke into Khumadovaâs house and threatening her with weapons led her away. The search for the woman was launched, the source said.
He recalled that earlier Doku Umarovâs father, too, was abducted, according to rights groupsâ reports. To recap, 8 relatives of the former Chechen separatist leader, Aslan Maskhadov, went missing in late 2004. After Maskhadov was killed during a security raid in March of 2005 all of them returned home, in June of 2005. | |
Posted by:Dan Darling |