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Russian website founder Magomed Yevloyev shot dead

Magomed Yevloyev, the founder of the Ingushetiya website was arrested at gunpoint in Narzan as he stepped off a plane. He was taken into a police car where "an incident" took place... "resulting in a shooting injury to the head and he later died in hospital," Interfax reported,
A source at Ingush police said the website founder had been detained as part of a criminal investigation and was being taken to a police station, Interfax reported. "Along the way, a shot was involuntarily fired from a policeman's gun and the bullet hit Yevloyev's head," the source was quoted as saying. link