MOSCOW, June 7 (RIA Novosti) - An aide to a deputy prime minister of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya was killed in central Chechen town of Argun, the republic's police said on Sunday.

Musost Khutiyev, a former deputy head of the Argun administration in 2000-2001, who recently worked as an aide to Chechen First Deputy Prime Minister Khalid Vaikhanov, was attacked on Saturday by an unidentified assailant, the police said.

"Khutiyev died of the wounds," the police said.

A source in the Chechen police earlier said that an unidentified person shot dead an aide to a Chechen deputy prime minister and a local resident at a trading depot in Argun.

The motives of the crime are not yet known. An investigation is under way, the police said.