31 March 2011, 20:00
Dokku Umarov's personal physician identified among killed gunmen
During a special operation law enforcement bodies in Ingushetia identified the body of Yusup Buzurtanov, personal physician of the leader of Chechen gunmen Dokku Umarov among the killed. There was also a woman among them.
According to the investigators, a bag with medicants was found beside the dead body of the man preliminarily identified as Yusup Buzurtanov, "Commersant" newspaper quotes their information. According to law enforcement bodies, Buzurtanov had been Umarov's personal physician for many years and had always accompanied him in all his trips. Most of the bag's contents consisted of insulin ampules and syringes because Dokku Umavov, according to this media, was ill with diabetes.
Members of power ministries are also sure that there are Dokku Umarov's assistants Supyan Abdullaev ("Red Supyan") and Aslan Butukaev (Emir Khamzat) among the killed. Two more gunmen, Madaev and Khashagulgov, were identified, too.
As for Umarov himself, according to Head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, the gunmen's leader has not yet been found among the killed gunmen. "There is no corroboration concerning liquidation of Umarov yet", Yevkurov said on March, 30.
He added that 14 dead bodies of gunmen and fragments of two corpses of those killed were taken out of the scene of the special operation. There is also a woman's dead body among them", "Interfax" quotes Yevkurov.
