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| Official and son murdered in Chechnya |
| 2005-12-01 |
| Head of administration in Avtury, Chechnya and his son were murdered Tuesday evening, a source at the regional headquarters of the anti-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus told Interfax on Wednesday. "Unidentified gunmen in camouflage and masks entered the house of administration head Ibragim Umpashayev at about 7 p.m. on Tuesday and shot him dead. When they saw his son Isa in the yard, they opened automatic fire at him. Isa Umpashayev, born in 1979, died of mortal wounds in hospital," the source said. The gunmen also opened fire at the police offices who arrived at the scene wounding two of them. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |