MAKHACHKALA — Police in the restive Dagestan province say a top prosecutor has been shot dead.
Dagestan Interior Ministry spokesman Mark Tolchinsky said Maksud Maksudov was shot as he was getting into his car outside his home in the provincial capital Friday morning.
Maksudov was the head of a prosecutorial department dealing with prisons in Dagestan.
Attacks on officials and law enforcement officers occur almost daily in Dagestan, which is located in the tumultuous North Caucasus region.
There has been a spike in attacks blamed on militants in recent months in Dagestan and the neighboring provinces of Chechnya and Ingushetia.
Tolchinsky said the former head of an administrative district in Dagestan was fatally shot Thursday.
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