17:00, 22 May 2010

Three employees of women's colony shot dead in Kabardino-Balkaria

Three employees of the Department of the Federal Correction Service (known as "UFSIN") for Kabardino-Balkaria were killed in a shell, one more was wounded.

"Unidentified persons opened fire from a passenger car on colony employees in Sovietskiy village, Prokhladnenskiy District. Three UFSIN employees were killed, and one more wounded," said a source in local law enforcement bodies.

The investigation has established that on May 22 at about 10:30 a.m. in the highway Karagach-Blagoveshenka of the Prokhladnenskiy District, unidentified persons shelled from inside their VAZ-2199 car four employees of Corrective Colony No. 4 of the Russian UFSIN from automatic firearms and disappeared, as reported by the website of the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee of the Prosecutor's Office).

The "Interfax" adds that two women and a man were shot dead; one more woman was wounded and provided with medical aid.