6 May 2016 11:49

Accountant of local police department killed in Dagestan

MAKHACHKALA. May 6 (Interfax) - The police is searching for the unknown individuals who shot a law enforcement official in the early hours of Friday in the Suleyman-Stalsky district of Dagestan, the interior affairs ministry for the republic told Interfax.

"The law enforcement official was shot with an unidentified weapon by the unknown individuals in the yard of his own house in the village of Ashagastal in the Suleyman-Stalsky district last night on 2 a.m. He died on arrival to the central district hospital," the ministry's representative said.

The perpetrators fled the crime scene; operational search measures are being conducted.