05 February 2007, 23:19
Merzhoev, declared militants' aide and shot dead in Ingushetia, was unarmed
The "Caucasian Knot" has already informed that on February 3, members of power agencies of Ingushetia killed a militants' ally in the town of Malgobek.
While conducting their operative-and-search actions, militiamen of Ingushetia have identified, as the law enforcement bodies report, a militants' assistant, who rendered an armed resistance to power agents in a house in Oskanov Street. It was Zelimkhan Merzhoev.
At detention, Zelimkhan demonstrated that he was unarmed, then, he started running, although he had been warned about the cordon. Merzhoev was shot dead in the eyes of his mother and two sisters. He did not blow him up with a grenade, as various media have reported, the source have informed.
According to the source, Zelimkhan was a god-fearing person and observed all the Islam provisions.
Magomed Khasultanov, CK correspondent