A Russian soccer player was shot Saturday when the car he was driving was hit with machine gun ammunition, the Associated Press reported. Gasan Magomedov, 20, died from his injuries while being transported to the hospital.
Magomedov played for the Russian National Football League’s Anzhi Makhachkala. The club is located in the Dagestan region of North Caucasus, an area that is home to internecine violence between Islamist militant groups as well as Russian security forces.
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Authorities are not aware of a possible motive for the murder, and no arrests have been made, …read more
Source: Time
