North Ossetia’s deputy mufti murdered

North Ossetia is investigating the murder of the republic’s deputy mufti Ibragim Dudarov. A criminal case was instituted on charges of murder and arms trafficking, a spokesman for the regional investigative department, Eduard Gusov, told (Itar-Tass). Ibragim Dudarov was killed on Wednesday night, when he was driving home to the village of Chmi. “Probably, he stopped his car for his killers,” North Ossetia’s mufti Khadzhimurat Gatsalov said. “The car with the dead man kept up standing for hours until passersby saw it.” Ibragim Dudarov, 34, was the only person from North Ossetia’s Spiritual Board of Muslims, who graduated from the university receiving religious education. “Ibragim was especially chosen to be killed for his religion,” Gatsalov said. From the beginning of the year this has been the seventh assassination attempt on Islamic religious leaders.