MAKHACHKALA, June 12 (RIA Novosti) - A senior
police officer in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Daghestan
was shot dead Friday on a street in the capital, Makhachkala, a
local Interior Ministry official said.
"At approximately 07:50 Moscow time at 92 Akushinsky
Prospekt, unknown persons killed the police chief of
Makhachkala's Sovetsky district with a shot to the head as he
was going to work," the official told RIA Novosti.
Attacks on police officers have increased in recent
days following the assassination of the republic's interior
minister, Lt. Gen. Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, in the capital
last week.
The 52-year-old, who had survived several attempts on
his life during his decade in the post, was shot dead after
leaving a wedding reception on June 5. The Interior Ministry's
head of logistics was also killed in the attack, and several
other high-ranking officials were wounded.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev convened a National
Security Council meeting in the republic on Tuesday, at which
he said the situation in the North Caucasus was complicated,
adding that Magomedtagirov's murder represented a challenge to
the state.
Since the president's visit there has been a spate of
attacks on police in Daghestan, and a senior judge was murdered
on Wednesday in Ingushetia, another republic bordering Chechnya.
Aza Gazgireyeva, a deputy judge on Ingushetia's
Supreme Court, died of her injuries in a hospital after gunmen
opened fire from automatic weapons at her official vehicle in
the regional center of Nazran.
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