A Chechen government official has died after an explosion at a television studio where he was filming a broadcast.
Mr Adam Deniyev served as a deputy to Chechen administration chief Mr Akhmat Kadyrov.
Mr Deniyev had worked as Mr Kadyrov's special representative in the Middle East and Africa, the ITAR-Tassnews agency reports.
Mr Igor Botnikov, an aide to Kremlin spokesman Mr Sergei Yastrzhembsky, says Mr Deniyev was at a TV studio in the southern town of Avtury. A TV cameraman was wounded.
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No one has claimed responsibility for the killing but Chechen rebels have frequently targeted local administration officials, whom they accuse of betrayal.
PA