Dagestan interior minister killed
18:05, 5 June 2009
MAKHACHKALA. June 5. KAZINFORM Dagestan Interior Minister Adilgerei Magomedtagirov was assassinated by a sniper, a source at the republic's law-enforcement bodies told Itar-Tass; Kazinform refers to ITAR-TASS.
"At around 13:00, Moscow time, the minister together with Colonel Abdulzhapar Magomedov, director of the Interior Ministry's tax crimes department, were standing near the Marakesh banquet hall, where the marriage of the Colonel's daughter was to take place," the officer said.
A preliminary report said an unidentified man opened fire at the minister and the people around him from an apartment of a nine-storey house nearby.
Five people were rushed to the republic's orthopedic-traumatological center; Kazinform cites ITAR-TASS.
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