Chechen deputy interior minister killed
Sunday, 8 July 2007
GROZNY, July 7 (AFP): Chechnya's deputy
interior minister, Akhmed Dakayev, was shot and killed by rebels
in the capital Grozny, local officials said Saturday.
"He had gone with his group to check out a report on the presence of the Wahhabite Yunis Akhmadov" in a house in Grozny's Minutka district, Grozny's deputy mayor Ramzan Magamedov told AFP as he attended Dakayev's funeral Saturday morning.
He was unable to say whether any of the rebels, referred to as "Wahhabites" even when they do not belong to the Islamic-led branch of the rebellion, had been killed in Friday's operation.
Early Saturday a Russian army convoy came under fire in the mountainous south of Chechnya, Interfax reported citing the interior ministry.
interior minister, Akhmed Dakayev, was shot and killed by rebels
in the capital Grozny, local officials said Saturday.
"He had gone with his group to check out a report on the presence of the Wahhabite Yunis Akhmadov" in a house in Grozny's Minutka district, Grozny's deputy mayor Ramzan Magamedov told AFP as he attended Dakayev's funeral Saturday morning.
He was unable to say whether any of the rebels, referred to as "Wahhabites" even when they do not belong to the Islamic-led branch of the rebellion, had been killed in Friday's operation.
Early Saturday a Russian army convoy came under fire in the mountainous south of Chechnya, Interfax reported citing the interior ministry.