The son of a town leader in Dagestan was released Wednesday after gunmen kidnapped him a day earlier, local police told Interfax.
Police said they detained five suspects in the abduction of Magomedshamil Shahbanov, 30. His father leads the town of Buinaksk.
Masked gunmen kidnapped Shahbanov at the site where his house was being constructed. They hustled him into his car and drove off, leaving a friend tied up at the site. Police later stopped the car with five suspects on the town’s outskirts. A criminal case into the abduction, illegal detention and theft has been opened, the Investigative Committee said.
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