14 March 2009, 12:00

Kidnapped resident of Chechnya found dead

The law enforcement bodies of Chechnya report that near the Roshni-Chu village, Urus-Martan District, the body of earlier kidnapped local resident was found.

Earlier, two local jobless residents lodged an application about the kidnapping to the militia. "They reported that 7 kilometres off the above village, in a large forest, five unknown persons, by threatening with automatic firearms them and their friend, a local resident, who was hunting there, disarmed them and took their friend away in an unknown direction," a source in law enforcement bodies said to the "Interfax".

In the place of the incident, in the course of operative-search actions, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) found a man's body with two gunshot wounds in his head. Now the search of the culprits is underway, as the "Lenta.ru" reports.

 

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