High-ranking security officer killed in Ingushetia

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High-ranking security officer killed in Ingushetia

18.09.2007, 01.04

NAZRAN, September 18 (Itar-Tass) — A high-ranking officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), who was sent to North Caucasus to investigate kidnappings of Ingush ethnics in North Ossetia, was killed late on Monday by unidentified gunmen.

Lieutenant Colonel Alikhan Kalimatov, a brother of the former prosecutor of the Republic of Ingushetia, was shot dead when he arrived with a friend to a cafй on the Caucasus highway near the Ingushi settlement of Gazi-yurt. His friend was wounded in a leg.

Local police said bullet cases from two Kalashnikov submachine guns were found at the crime site and the gunmen supposedly fled in three cars.

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