Imam killed in Russia's Dagestan region
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The imam of a rural mosque in Russia's North Caucasus province of Dagestan was shot dead on Tuesday, Russian news agencies reported. The body of Ashurulav Kurbanov was found near the mosque in the village of Mikheyevka in the northern part of the province, Interfax and state-run RIA reported.
Mainstream Muslim leaders are frequent targets of militants in Dagestan, a centre of the Islamist insurgency that persists on Russia's southern rim a decade after federal forces drove separatists from power in the neighbouring province of Chechnya. (Reuters)
