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| Islamic teacher gunned down in Dagestan |
| 2014-04-12 |
| Masked gunmen gunned down an Islamic teacher after bursting into his home in the republic of Dagestan, the latest such killing in the region, investigators said on Friday. In a statement the Investigative Committee said, "At around 11:00 pm on Thursday, unidentified attackers in masks entered the house of 32-year-old Magomed Zakaryayev, the teacher at the madrasa in the village of Nechayevka and fired several shots." Zakaryayev died at the scene. A murder and arms trafficking probe has been launched over the killing. A spokesman for the Committee's Dagestan branch said, "Investigators suspect the crime was committed by members of an illegal armed group due to the religious activity of the murdered man." |
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