MOSCOW: A Russian judge was shot dead near his home in the restive Caucasus region of Dagestan by an unknown assailant, investigators said on Thursday.

An “unknown person fired shots from an automatic weapon” at judge Ubaidula Magomedov late Wednesday in the courtyard of his home in the mountain village of Assab, Dagestan’s investigative committee said.

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