In the second half of the day on 31 January 2003, a corpse of a young man with
bullet wounds was found in the village Orjonikidzevskaya of Sunzha district, Ingushetia.
As it became known later, the murdered young man was a refugee from the Chechen
Republic - Zaurbek Jabrailov, born in 1974. According to our information, Zaurbek
was a relative of Umar Jabrailov, a well-known Moscow businessman. No information
is available about the reason of the murder.
According to the residents of the village Alkhan-Kala of Grozny district, late
in the night of 31 January 2003, unknown people murdered an old woman. She was
shot in her home, located in the outskirt of the village. The identity of the
murdered woman and details of the crime are being investigated.
On 8 January 2003, in several kilometers away from the village Kurchaloi, the
natives of the village found the remains of a blown up body. It is impossible
to identify the killed person. The fragments of the body were buried on the cemetery
near the village.
Chechen Committee of National Salvation
Press Release # 262, February 2, 2003
Nazran, Republic of Ingushetia