Senior Russian officer shot in Moscow in apparent assassination attempt
Al Jazeera
An unidentified individual has shot Lieutenant General Alekseyev before fleeing the scene, authorities say.
A senior Russian military official has been hospitalised after being shot several times in Moscow, according to state media quoting Russian officials.
An unknown assailant carried out a gun attack on Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, deputy chief of Russian military intelligence, in a residential building, Svetlana Petrenko, spokesperson for the Russian Investigative Committee (ICR), said on Friday.
Alekseyev is deputy chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff at the Defence Ministry.
Petrenko told reporters that a criminal investigation has been opened for attempted murder, and illegal trafficking in firearms regarding the incident, according to the Interfax news agency.
She said that the shooting attack took place in a building at Volokolamsk Highway in Moscow and the suspect fled the scene.
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