They hit relatives

In Nazran, a car was blown up in which there were Fatima Dzhanieva, the pregnant widow of murdered oppositionist Maksharip Aushev, and her relatives. His wife's mother and one of his brothers, Leila Dzhanieva and Ruslan Dzhaniev, died. This happened less than two months after the murder of Aushev himself. As the Caucasian Knot website reports with reference to the leader of the Ingush opposition Magomed Khazbiev, the car was inspected immediately before the explosion. Khazbiev, who is now abroad, received a call on the evening of December 16 and was informed that representatives of the special services in masks and helmets stopped the car in which Maksharipa Ausheva’s wife, her two brothers and mother were traveling. “They were all asked to get out of the car, everyone was taken away from the car. They began to completely inspect the car, turning everything inside out. This lasted about ten minutes. The car was completely searched, checked, looked at, and then they said: “Everything is fine, good, go,” Khazbiev says. After the car had driven just a few meters, an explosion occurred. Fatima Dzhanieva and her younger brother Amir are in intensive care.

Before this, it was reported that the driver of the car turned around at the checkpoint, but fire was opened on him, and perhaps the bullets hit the gas cylinder in the car, resulting in an explosion. Sources of the "Caucasian Knot" report that the car had tinted windows and that the shelling may have been related to the campaign against tinting in Ingushetia.

Maksharip Aushev himself, a businessman, human rights activist, owner of the opposition website Ingushetiya.Org, member of the expert council on the North Caucasus under the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, was shot dead on October 25.