The construction minister, of the Russian republic of Ingushetia was shot to death in his office on Wednesday.
![Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) talks to Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Yevkurov in a Moscow hospital in late July 2009. Yevkurov was seriously wounded in a bombing in June 2009. In a new incident, the minister of construction in Russia's turbulent Ingushetia region, Ruslan Amerkhanov, has been shot dead inside his ministerial office, officials said.[Aleksey Nikolskyi/CCTV/AFP/RIA Novosti/File]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20090813/001ec94a1ee40bedb7a00b.jpg "Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) talks to Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Yevkurov in a Moscow hospital in late July 2009. Yevkurov was seriously wounded in a bombing in June 2009. In a new incident, the minister of construction in Russia's turbulent Ingushetia region, Ruslan Amerkhanov, has been shot dead inside his ministerial office, officials said.[Aleksey Nikolskyi/CCTV/AFP/RIA Novosti/File]") |
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) talks to Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Yevkurov in a Moscow hospital in late July 2009. Yevkurov was seriously wounded in a bombing in June 2009. In a new incident, the minister of construction in Russia's turbulent Ingushetia region, Ruslan Amerkhanov, has been shot dead inside his ministerial office, officials said.[Aleksey Nikolskyi/CCTV/AFP/RIA Novosti/File]
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The Ingush Interior Ministry said Ruslan Amerkhanov was shot by two men who entered his office in Ingushetia's capital Magas. The assailants fled in a waiting car.
Investigators believe the killing could be related to recent government audits of construction projects, that turned up building violations and misuse of funds.
It is the latest in a series of high-profile attacks on top officials in the republic.
(CCTV August 13, 2009)
