MAKHACHKALA, November 10 (RIA Novosti) – A director of vegetable warehouse has been found dead with multiple gunshot wounds in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan, a local police spokesman said Sunday.
Malik Safaraliyev went missing after being attacked in his car by four masked men on Friday. His body was found Sunday near a road in the village of Chinar in Derbentsky district, in the southeast of the republic.
Investigators said another man has been found alive in the car with his hands tied behind back. An investigation into murder, abduction and illegal arms trafficking has been launched.
Attacks in the North Caucasus on security forces, police and civilians generated by ethnic, religious and political rivalries, as well as poverty and corruption, occur on a regular basis. The violence is fed in part by an Islamist insurgency in the region.
