Unidentified gunmen shot down the police captain at a gas station in the Dagestani town of Khasavyurt, according to Itar-Tass. The assistant commander of the special squadron of the battalion of the police patrol service in the Khasavyurt district Karamdin Abukadzhiyev, 35, was killed, a source in the republican Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. “The incident occurred at 17:20 Moscow time on Tuesday at the seventh kilometre of the Khasavyurt-Babayurt highway," the source noted. Unidentified gunmen were driving a white Lada Priora car without the numbers and shot from automatic rifles. The criminals, who stole a PM pistol from the policeman with two full magazines loaded with 16 cartridges, escaped. The urgent interception plan was introduced, a criminal case was opened, the source underlined.