Chechen Official Dies Following December Car Accident

(RFE/RL)

5 January 2006 -- The deputy speaker of the Chechen parliament has died, two weeks after a car accident in which he was seriously injured.

Russian media reported today that Sultan Belimkhanov died on 2 January and has already been buried in Chechnya.

Belimkhanov was taken to hospital in Moscow following the 16 December accident in Chechnya that left one other person dead.

(ITAR-TASS/RIA-Novosti/Interfax)