07 September 2005, 20:32
Abduction in N Ossetia
At about 2.30 last night, four armed unidentified persons in a UAZ and a Zhiguli vehicles stopped a car driven by a local resident, a retired officer of Chechnya's Internal Affairs Ministry, in Mozdok, North Ossetia, a source with law enforcement agencies in the South federal district told RIA Novosti.
The criminals stabbed him in the chest four times, then pushed the pensioner and his passenger, a resident of Chechnya's Nadterechnaia district, into their cars and brought them to the capital of Chechnya, Grozny. In the city's Leninskii district, they tied up the pensioner and threw him down in the river from a bridge. They next drove away with the second abducted man. In spite of the wounds he had sustained, the man managed to get out to the bank. He was found at about 5.00 am.
