22:23, 18 November 2006

In North Ossetia, a family of come-back Ingush refugees was attacked

About 10 p.m. on November 17, three unknown persons in camouflage and armed with automatic guns rushed into a private house in Kirova Street of the Dongaron village of North Ossetia. The house is inhabited Bagaudin Khashiev, 40, with his family, who returned, about four years ago, after the 1992 Ossetian-Ingush conflict, back to the village. The culprits, who spoke with a characteristic Ossetian accent, were saying obscene words and threatened that they would not let any Ingushes to live in Ossetia; they beat all the members of family - the owner, his wife and four children aged from 6 to 14. Then, having taken away all the valuable items they could find in the house and the car keys, the criminals disappeared from the place of the incident. Bagaudin Khashiev with a craniocerebral trauma and injuries of extremities was delivered to Nazran, to the Ingush Republic's Clinical Hospital. Doctors estimate his condition as heavy. They told the "Caucasian Knot" at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia that the law enforcement bodies of North Ossetia are engaged into the investigation of the incident.