A headmaster who was opposed to his female students wearing headscarves was killed in Russia’s Muslim North Caucasus by militants, local officials and Islamist rebels have said.
Akhmed Sidikullakh was shot dead by two assailants on Saturday in the courtyard of his home in a village in Dagestan, a region wedged between Chechnya and the Caspian Sea, the local Interior Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
An insurgency is raging in Russia’s mainly Muslim south, where rebels are fighting to carve out a separate Islamic state in the North Caucasus, including in Chechnya, the site of two separatist wars since 1994.
