Posted on 08/12/2009 2:53:52 AM PDT by Cheap_Hessian
NAZRAN, Russia (AP) - The construction minister in Russia's violence-plagued Ingushetia was shot to death in his office Wednesday, the latest in a series of high-profile attacks on top officials in the restive republic.
Ruslan Amerkhanov was shot by two men who entered his office in the republic's capital Magas, one armed with an assault rifle and the other with a pistol, said Ingush Interior Ministry spokeswoman Madina Khadziyeva. The minister's assistant was wounded in the shooting, she said.
The assailants fled in a waiting car.
Ingush Security Council secretary Alexei Vorobyov said investigators believe the killing could be related to recent audits of construction projects that turned up building violations and misuse of funds.
Ingushetia, which borders war-battered Chechnya, in recent months has seen near-daily attacks on police or police operations against fighters variously believed to be militants inspired by Chechnya's separatists or connected with criminal clans.
In June, Ingush president Yunus-Bek Yevkurov was seriously injured in a suicide car-bomb attack on his convoy. Two weeks earlier, a justice of the republic's supreme court was shot to death as she dropped off her children at a kindergarten.
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RIP.
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