(RIA Novosti) - A militant with links to al-Qaeda has been killed in Russia's southern republic of Ingushetia, an Interior Ministry official said on Tuesday. The body of a man with gunshot wounds, found at a militant base in western Ingushetia earlier on Tuesday, was identified as Jordanian-born Khalid Yusef Mohammad al-Elitat, who fought for the Islamist terrorist network in Russia's North Caucasus, distributing funds among militant groups active in Chechnya and neighboring Ingushetia.Investigators have suggested the fighter could have been killed during a clash with other militants.
Last month General Nikolai Rogozhkin, the commander of the Interior Troops, said that up to 700 militants were operating in the North Caucasus at present and that there could be up to 70 foreign fighters among them.