10:26, 4 July 2005
Killing in Chechnya
Abdul-Azim Yangulbekov, head of administration in Zumsoi, Itum-Kale district, was killed in Chechnya in the afternoon, the Regional Operations Headquarters (ROH) for the Counter-terrorist Operation in the North Caucasus told Interfax on Monday.
Four armed people in camouflage stopped Yangulbekov's car on a road. They said they were military men, had him out the car, and shot him dead, the ROH said.
The Internal Affairs Ministry emphasised there was a local tractor driver in Yangulbekov's car together with Abdul-Azim, but the gunmen let him go.
The ROH told RIA Novosti that no federal forces had been in the district at the time when the murder was committed.