22:00, 28 March 2009

Bodies of five assassinated local residents found in Ingushetia

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia has reported that five killed local residents were found near Arshty and Bamut villages, Sunzha District, located near the administrative border with Chechnya.

According to the Ministry, the casualties - Nazir Evloev, 52, Rustam Evloev, 52, Magomed Zandiev, 49, Bagaudin Ozdoev, 46, and Khasmagomed Nakastoev, 54, - went hunting two days ago and never came back.

Their search was launched, and today law enforcers found their bodies. Now, an inquiry team is studying the place of the incident, as the ITAR-TASS Agency reports.

The MIA assumes that the murder of Ingushetian residents could be committed by the bandit group, which hides in the adjacent forest under command of a certain Makhauri, as the "Newsru.com" website reports.

According to another version, the people, whose bodies were found near Arshty and Bamut, were killed "by control shots in their heads"; there were four, not five, of them, and "by all attributes the murder was committed by special agencies." This version was supported, in particular, by the Internet edition "Ingushetia.Org".