NAZRAN, July 6 (RIA Novosti) - A senior police officer has been killed in an attack by unidentified assailants in the North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia, the republic interior ministry said on Sunday.
Magomed Batkhoyev, who headed the ministry's department for struggle against the illegal trade in narcotic drugs, was driving a Volga car in Nazran when unidentified assailants opened fire at him on Sunday afternoon. Batkhoyev died of wounds on his way to hospital while his wife, who was also in the car, was hospitalized with gunshot wounds of various gravity, the ministry said.
Measures are ongoing to find the attackers, the ministry said.
In a similar attack in April, Khasan Yandiyev, deputy chairman of Ingushetia's Supreme Court, was killed at a filling station in the city of Karabulak.
