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| District election official killed in Chechnya |
| 2005-11-18 |
| Chairman of the Shovkhal-Berd village elections commission Isa Temirgirayev has been killed in Chechnya in a first attack against organizers of the Chechen parliamentary elections, officials with the republic elections commission told Interfax. The Chechen Interior Ministry and head of the Nozhai-Yurt district authorities Vakha Magamgadziyev have confirmed this information. Magamgadziyev said, citing reports from Shovkhal-Berd, that unidentified assailants shot Temirgirayev dead on Wednesday evening. An investigative team set out to this mountainous village at dawn. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |