Militants murder school teacher in Chechen village

12.09.2003

GROZNY, September 12 (Itar-Tass) - Chechen militants have killed a schoolteacher in the village of Dargo, Vedeno district of Chechnya, sources at the press service of the Chechen Interior Ministry said.

Musa Shurtuyev, the teacher was killed by a group of about ten militants, who broke into his house and shot him from submachine-guns.

Local police launched a search for the criminals and the Chechen Prosecutor's Office has opened a criminal case.