12:49, 5 January 2008

A Dagestan native assassinated in Moscow

The law enforcement bodies of the Russian capital have informed today that a native from Dagestan was killed in Moscow.

His body with a brain injury and numerous stab and slash wounds was revealed in the evening on January 4 at one of the houses in the 2nd Vladimirskaya Street in the Eastern District of Moscow. Operative agents and experts have established that his death happened at about 6 p.m., the "Interfax" reports.

The militia failed to solve the crime hot on the trail.

"A cellular telephone, a purse and the victim's passport were found in the place of the incident, which gives grounds to conclude that the murder was accomplished not with the aim of robbery," a source at the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.

The investigation is underway, studying various versions of the crime, including an interethnic enmity motivated murder.