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10 March 2010, 11:31Madrasah teacher shot dead in Dagestan
Makhachkala, March 10, Interfax - The body of a madrasah teacher with gunshot wounds has been found in his home in the village of Yasnaya Polyana in the Kizlyar District of Dagestan, a local police source told Interfax on Wednesday.
The circumstances of the murder have yet to be clarified, and a criminal case has been opened to this end, he said.
Earlier, in January, Deputy General Director of the Kizlyar Electromechanical Plant Ahmed Ibragimov was killed in Dagestan. Ht was engaged in public and religious activities and was deputy imam at a mosque in Kizlyar.
On May 2009, Deputy Mufti Ahmed Tagayev from the Muslim Spiritual Board of Dagestan was killed in Makhachkala. He was one of the main ideologists of the opposition to religious extremism among Muslims.
On November 2008, an attack was made against the Dagestan mufti's advisor, Sultan Sultanmagomedov, and his driver. Both sustained shrapnel wounds from the explosion. Urmagomed Gajimagomedov, a servant from a local mosque and a vocal opponent of extremists, was killed in October 2007.
There are up to one hundred of subvertionists and around 1,500 Wahabis in Dagestan.
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