GROZNY. April 10 (Interfax-AVN) - Federal special services have carried out an operation in Chechnya, as a result of which Imran Abzuyev, the former head of the so-called special department of Ichkeria's national security service, was killed, Ilya Shabalkin, official of the Federal Security Service public relations center, told Interfax-Military News Agency on Wednesday.
Abzuyev offered armed resistance, was mortally wounded in a skirmish and died, he said.
Shabalkin also said that Abzuyev was suspected of killing federal servicemen. Details of the operation were not disclosed.