Five Chechens killed in Ingushetia by special service unitsRuslan Isayev, North Caucasus - On March 26, members of the Russian special services killed five Chechens who were living in Ingushetia. For some time now the special services have apparently been shooting anyone they believe is somehow connected with the Chechen resistance movement.
That Friday, in the Altiyevo village, near one of the mosques, armed masked men driving unlicensed cars, stopped a white VAZ car in which sat two men and a woman. The men forced the passengers out at gunpoint, and threw them onto the ground.
According to an eyewitness who was standing several meters away, when one of the assailants shot one of the male passengers in the head, the second man tried to flee but was instantly gunned down by the others. They then beat the woman with their gunstocks.
After this incident, the men began taking pictures of each other with the bodies of their victims in the background. The Ingush police and members of the Prosecutor’s office arrived at the crime scene but were not allowed to do anything until they received permission from the assailants.
It was later reported that one of the victims had a belt with explosives strapped to his body. However, several eyewitnesses asserted that the belt had been put on subsequently by the men who killed him.
On the same day at the same time in the outskirts of Nazran in Nasyr-Kort, three other Chechens were killed almost under the same circumstances. They were accused of being followers of the Wahhabi movement.
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