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Muay Thai amateur champ found dead in Moscow

According to the Voice of Russia radio station, Abdullayev won the European Muay Thai championships in 2004. A year later he won the gold medal in the 81 kg category at the world amateur championships in Bangkok.

06:07 25/12/2009

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Amateur Muay Thai world champion, Muslim Abdullayev, has been found dead in Moscow, the investigation department of the Russian Prosecutor's Office said on Friday.

"At about 22:00 Moscow time [19:00 GMT on Thursday] the body of the 27-year-old... world Thai boxing champion Muslim Abdullayev was found with a gunshot wound to the head," the department said on its website.

Investigators are working at the scene.

MOSCOW, December 25 (RIA Novosti)

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