Mass murder in Naur district of Chechnya

GROZNY, May 21. /From a RIA Novosti correspondent). -

Six local  residents have been killed in the Kalinovskaya village in the Naur  district of Chechnya.

About three o'clock in the morning a group of armed criminals on five  UAZ cars entered the village, RIA Novosti learned from head of the  district's administration Vladimir Nazarenko.

"The bandits shot a family of four in one of the private houses. Then  they burst in a neighbour house, shot two people in presence of their  relatives, and left the scene of the crime," Nazarenko said.

Though the Naur district is considered a "quiet" one, the head of the  administration had insisted "on increasing the number of checkpoints  as they are not enough to ensure citizens' security," he said.

All law-enforcement bodies of Chechnya are involved in investigating  the murder, Nazarenko pointed out.

Earlier the republic's Interior Ministry reported to RIA Novosti that  five people had been killed in the Nadterechny district. According to  preliminary information, "the victims were servicemen of security  service of Akhmad Kadyrov, head of the Chechen administration".


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