NAZRAN, October 14 (RIA Novosti) - Two members of a Russian-speaking family were killed after unidentified assailants attacked their house in Karabulak in the North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia, a local police source said on Sunday.
"Information about the murder came at about 2:30 p.m. Moscow time (10:30 a.m. GMT) Sunday. Unidentified attackers broke into a house at Moskovskaya Street where the family lived and fired at four family members with automatic weapons. The grandfather and a daughter-in-law were killed while mother and her son were heavily wounded," the police source said.
This is the latest crime in a series of similar incidents in the republic neighboring troubled Chechnya, which saw two Moscow-led military campaigns against separatist regimes in the 1990s- early 2000s.
In the early hours of July 16, ethnic Russian teacher Lyudmila Terekhina, 55, and her son and daughter were shot in their house in the town of Ordzhonikidzevskaya. Policemen said possible motives were robbery and nationalistic sentiments. At their funeral two days later a tripwire bomb went off leaving 11 people injured.
On August 31 unknown assailants broke into a house in the town of Karabulak and shot a Russian-speaking teacher's husband and two sons, 20 and 24 years respectively, with an automatic rifle.
The region is inhabited by a predominantly non-Slavic Muslim population.
