In Dagestan, the head of a village was killed due to a land dispute
On May 31, in the Derbent region of Dagestan, the head of the village of Rubas, Gadzhikurban Bayrambegov (pictured). The reason was a conflict over real estate.
The 61-year-old village head was shot in the chest around noon. Half an hour later, the shooter, 58-year-old local resident Sadyk Taibov, called emergency services and confessed to the murder. During the interrogation, he said that Bayrambegov made him homeless: “He transferred my houses to another person when I was in the hospital in serious condition.” The case about the land plot was considered in court, Taibov lost the case.
The murdered man was Rubas's second-term chief of staff. Before that, he worked as a school director and was elected as a deputy of the village and district assembly of deputies from United Russia.
This is not the first time that land conflicts have caused tragedies. On April 30, the Daliev brothers were shot dead in the Ingush village of Muzhichi. Their relative confessed to the murder; the reason was a dispute over a plot of land.
On March 2, in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, two men, 65 and 37 years old, after a long legal battle over land surveying, killed each other. An elderly man set fire to his neighbor's car, who pierced his chest with an iron rod and received two bullets in response. Both died on the spot.
