Official murdered in Chechnya

GROZNY. Dec 19 (Interfax-AVN) - The administration chief of the village of Tsotsin-Yurt in the Kurchaloi district of Chechnya has been murdered.

The man was killed by unknown individuals, Chechen Deputy Prime Minister Movsar Khamidov told Interfax on Thursday. The men entered the house of the official's neighbors, whom he was visiting at the time, and opened fire. The official and three other people were killed in the attack, Khamidov said.