22:00, 24 November 2009

Militiaman and his daughter of 11 assassinated in Ingushetia

Today in the morning, in Barsuki village, Nazran District of Ingushetia, unidentified persons shelled the car of Hadjibikar Buzurtanov, an employee of the convoy service of the MIA. The militiaman and his small daughter, who was with him in the car, were shot dead.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in the evening on November 23 in Ingushetia unidentified persons shot dead Alikhan Buzurtanov, head of the administration of the Nasyr-Kort municipal district of Nazran. The incident took place at the building of the administration. The attackers disappeared.

They moved in a VAZ-2107 car without state registration plates and held fire from sub-machine guns; Mr Buzurtanov with daughter and the wife were in his VAZ-2115 model.

"Doctors rendered all the necessary medical aid to the wounded militiaman; however he died without regaining consciousness," the local MIA spokesman told the "Interfax".

His wife was hospitalized slightly injured.