Girl stabs father's torturer

An 18-year-old girl stabbed a Chechen law enforcement agent who was beating her aged father in Prigorodnoye not far from Grozny on 13 June, a local resident told Caucasian Knot.

"The agents were looking for the old man's son, but he was not in, so one of them began to beat the father cruelly in the presence of his 18-year-old daughter, demanding that he should say where his son was. Unable to stand the violence over her father, the girl grabbed a table knife and stabbed the torturer in the heart, after which the others ran away taking the body of their man," a 42-year-old villager says.

"But yesterday in the morning (14 June) they came back and demanded that the girl's relatives should give her up saying their friend had died. The girl now has to hide, too, but even so she and her father and their other relatives are in danger," thinks the interlocutor. He refused to give her name saying it was her relatives' request.

The in the morning on 14 June, law enforcement agents abducted a young man in Prigorodnoye. The guy's aged neighbour who was watching the developments died of a heart attack on the spot. Chechnya's Internal Affairs Ministry declined comment concerning what had happened in Prigorodnoye saying police officers had nothing to do with the developments there. Local residents believe the agents were members of Chechnya's presidential security service.

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