25 Dec 2013 12:04

Kabardino-Balkaria police searching for healer's killers

NALCHIK. Dec 25 (Interfax) - A woman was killed in an armed assault in her village house in Kabardino-Balkaria, the spokesman for the Kabardino-Balkaria department of the Russian Investigative Committee told Interfax on Tuesday.

"Two unknown men broke into the healer's house in the village of Psykhurei in the Baksan district of Kabardino-Balkaria and shot her dead," he said, adding that the assailants drove away.

A criminal case was opened on the counts of murder (Article 105 of the Russian Criminal Code) and illegal arms turnover (Article 222).

The Kabardino-Balkaria Interior Ministry told Interfax that the woman was cynically murdered in front of a ten-year-old child.