Investigators do not rule out militants' involvement in murder of teacher in Dagestan

Investigators conducting investigation into the murder of teacher Abusupyan Omarov in Dagestan do not rule out involvement of members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) in the murder.

Let us remind you that in the evening of July 15, the old primary school teacher was shot dead in his house in the village of Khushtada of the Tsumada District of Dagestan. His two adult daughters and two minor grandchildren, born in 2002 and 2008, were with him in the house. Unidentified armed men forced them into the next room and then shot and killed the man at close range.

"We consider several versions, including personal hostile relations and involvement in the murder of members of illegal armed formations (IAFs), so-called 'forest people'," said the representative of the Regional Investigating Department of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Meanwhile, the ICRF's representative has emphasized that Abusupyan Omarov received no threats and that the teacher had no money debts, the RIA "Novosti" reports and also quotes the principal of the school where the murdered teacher worked as saying.

According to the school principal's report, Abusupyan Omarov was the honoured teacher of the republic, and he had a quiet and peaceful life. "After his wife died in 1992, he brought four children by himself. We do not understand who could commit the crime," Askhab Magomedov, the principal of the school, has stressed.