Police kill suspect in Caucasus TV anchor's murder

World January 29, 2013

Police kill suspect in Caucasus TV anchor's murder

MOSCOW (AP) — The main suspect in the recent murder of a journalist has been killed by police in Russia's North Caucasus, a region plagued by violence stemming from a yearslong Islamic insurgency.

Zeitun Baziev — on Russia's wanted list since 2010 on suspicion of several murders — was killed when he attempted to open fire on special forces who surrounded him in Nalchik, capital of the Kabardino-Balkaria province, police said Tuesday.

Baziev was a suspect in the December murder of Kazbek Gekkiev, a journalist with state broadcaster VGTRK. Police had earlier suggested that Gekkiev's killing could have been related to his job. Russia's North Caucasus provinces have been plagued by violence since a low-level insurgency spilled over after war ended in neighboring Chechnya in 2005. Shootings, bombings and abductions occur almost daily.

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