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Thu Feb 5, 1:28 AM
AFP Photo: File image shows a Russian
policeman guarding a desolate Red Square
in Moscow. Two people…
MOSCOW (AFP) – Two people were gunned down on Moscow’s streets overnight in what appeared the latest in a spate of contract murders in the capital, Russian news agencies reported Thursday .
A former deputy mayor of the Chechen capital Grozny was shot three times in the head outside his home, Interfax quoted a police source as saying.
The man, 36-year-old Gilani Shepiyeva, had survived an assassination attempt in 2006.
Separately, an oil trader of Georgian origin was shot while walking his dog.
“The signs are this was most probably a contract killing,” Interfax quoted a police source as saying.
The incidents come after a well-known human rights lawyer and a young female journalist were gunned down in Moscow last month, amid a resurgence in contract killings, many thought to be connected to Chechnya.