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Assassination attempt on President of Ingushetia

Mon 22 Jun 2009

The president of Russia's troubled North Caucasus region of Ingushetia, Yunusbek Yevkurov is in critical condition after his convoy was hit by a car bomb explosion this morning near Nazran.

He is the fourth official to be wounded or killed in Daghestan and Ingushetia in the last three weeks in an incident that bears signs of an assassination attempt by the North Caucasus resistance.

Yevkurov’s younger brother and three of his bodyguards were reportedly killed in the blast, and five other bodyguards were injured. Some reports suggest that the attack was the work of a suicide bomber.

The 48-year-old career military intelligence officer was appointed President of the Republic of Ingushetia eight months ago by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

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