12:02, 14 July 2005

Police officer murdered in Khasavyurt

A senior police sergeant was killed in Khasavyurt, Dagestan on 12 July, a spokesman for the Dagestani Interior Ministry told the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

The murder took place at 11 p.m. on Kandaurovskaya Street, "The officer was not on duty," the source added. There were several people together with the policeman, no one of them suffered.

This is the second murder of a police officer in Dagestan since 6 July, when Rasul Makasharipov, the Dagestani rebel leader, was destroyed. On 12 July, a major working in a regional police department was killed in the village of Pokrovskoye, Khasavyurt district.

Earlier, rebels of the Dagestani jamaat Shariat claimed they would storm policemen's housed by all means, in spite of the fact their could be their children and wives, destroy their adult relatives, and capture Dagestani policemen's wives and daughters.

Author: Ruslan Magomedov, CK correspondent