A brutal murder occurred yesterday morning in Naberezhnye Chelny. The former head of the Aktanysh and Tukaevsky districts of the republic, Alex Khabibullin, was beaten to death in the courtyard of his own house. Recently, he headed the Nizhnekamsk fuel pumping station of the main pipeline of the Srednevolzhsky Transnefteproduct company. At about 7 o'clock in the morning, Khabibullin left the entrance of his own house, heading to his official car. At this time, according to eyewitnesses, five masked young men armed with sticks attacked him and beat him brutally. Khabibullin died from his injuries at the scene before the ambulance crew arrived. The entire local police were immediately alerted, but it was not possible to catch the killers without delay. Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic Rinat Timerzyanov went to Naberezhnye Chelny to lead the investigation. The investigation is working through all possible versions of what happened, but the most likely version seems to investigators to be a demonstrative “contract” murder.
