The head of an international department for the fight against extremism in Russia's North Caucasus Federal District was shot dead in the capital of Dagestan, a department spokesman said on Sunday.
Gapal Gadzhiyev was shot in his Toyota Avensis while on his way to work on Sunday morning in Makhachkala, Mark Tolchinksy told RIA Novosti.
On Saturday, a bomb placed under a car went off in the republic's capital, injuring a police officer who was hospitalized with shrapnel wounds. His family, who was with him at the time, was not injured in the incident.
Russia's North Caucasus republics, in particular Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia, have seen frequent attacks on police and officials despite the end of a decade-long special regime for counterterrorism operations in Chechnya the last years.
Last week, a suicide bomber on a Volga car blew himself up at a market in Vladikavkaz, the capital of the North Caucasus republic of North Ossetia, killing at least 17 people and injuring more than 160.
The bombing is the latest in a series of terrorist attacks that have rocked the troubled North Caucasus in recent weeks, including a suicide attack on a military camp in Dagestan.
Last Sunday, a car packed with explosives and driven by a suicide bomber detonated near the Dagestan's town of Buinaksk after ramming the gates of a military unit. Five people were killed in the bombing. Later, a second bomb exploded in Buinaksk on the way of police officers heading to the site of the first blast.
PYATIGORSK, September 12 (RIA Novosti)
