A Muslim unearthly leader has been pellet utter in the Russian Caucasus commonwealth of Northwards Ossetia. Lieutenant mufti Ibragim Dudarov was hit by various bullets dismissed at his car as he was drive domicile previous on Wednesday, nigh the regional cap Vladikavkaz. Thither deliver been exchangeable attacks on Muslim leadership this class in the Russian republics of Dagestan and Tatarstan. The motivating in Dudarov's pillowcase is not crystallize.
The mufti aforesaid his surrogate "was not in dispute with anyone". He called the blast "a sr in the backbone", linking it to Dudarov's ferment in a local Muslim apparitional arrangement.
But he aforementioned Islamist militants - blame for many attacks in nearby Dagestan and Chechnya - were not fighting in Northerly Ossetia.
N Ossetia is a primarily Christian democracy which was pillaged by combat-ready 'tween Christian Ossetians and Muslim Ingush in the former Nineties.
Dudarov, 38, lived in the hamlet of Chmi dear Vladikavkaz with his wife and quatern children, the youngest organism a girlfriend innate scarce a month ago, Russia's Newsru.com site reports.
