An officer of the Prosecutor’s office killed in Ingushetia

20.10.2003 Editor

INGUSHETIA, October 20, Caucasus Times on October -The other day, the local Prosecutor’s office detective Dair Batalov was killed in suspicious circumstances in Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia.

The officer was found dead with several gunshot wounds in the head and a hand in the field in the vicinity of Ordzhonikidzevskaya village, 500 meters off his car, the Prosecutor’s office said in an interview with the Caucasus Times correspondent.

According to Zina Batalova, the killed officer wife, in the morning of October 17 her husband went to his office but didn’t come back. She had applied to the local police department. As a result of the operational search action the corpse of the missing officer has been found.
The prosecutor’s office of Sunzhensky district has lodged on the fact a criminal case under clause 105, item 1 Russian Criminal Code (premeditated murder), the investigation is being conducted into the case. The police said it was far too soon to tell of the versions, but added that the murder might be caused by the detective professional activity.

Malika Suleymenova, Caucasus Times, Ingushetia

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