05:00, 22 November 2015

In Dagestan, head of Teletl village killed

Mukhtar Kurbanov, the head of the village of Teletl of the Shamil District, who took office in June 2014 after the assassination of his predecessor, was killed by unidentified attackers.

According to investigators, the murder occurred at about 10:00 p.m. of November 21.

"In the evening of Saturday, unidentified attackers broke into the house of the official and killed him," reports a staff member of the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) as quoted by the "TASS".

According to the preliminary information of the investigators, a group of two-four attackers broke into the house of Mukhtar Kurbanov, shot and killed the official, and fled.

On June 29, 2014, Mukhtar Kurbanov was elected the head of the Teletl village as a result of early elections, which took place because of the fact that Khalid Kebedov, the previous head of the village, was killed in his house on December 6, 2013. According to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the murder could be committed by members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) in revenge.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.