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Gunmen shot and killed a top judge as she dropped her children off at school in Russia’s violent North Caucasus, officials said, the latest episode highlighting spiraling violence in a region plagued by poverty, corruption and the rise of radical Islam.
The van carrying Aza Gazgireeva, a deputy chief justice of the regional Supreme Court, was attacked opposite a kindergarten in Ingushetia republic’s main city, Nazran. She had just dropped her children off at the school, said Madina Khadzaeva, an Interior Ministry spokeswoman.
Gazgireeva died later at a hospital, Khadzaeva said. Five other people were wounded, including a 1-year-old girl who was not Gazgireeva’s daughter, emergency officials said.
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