The operator of a dissident news website in the restive Russian province of Ingushetia dies of a police gunshot wound after being arrested at the airport.
Magomed Yevloyev, owner of the ingushetiya.ru site, was a vocal critic of the region's administration.
The Russian prosecutor's office said an investigation into the death had been launched, Russia media report.
A post on Yevloyev's site says he was detained by police after landing at the airport of the main town, Nazran.
The website owner was taken to hospital but died from his injuries.
Reports quoting local police said Yevloyev had tried to seize a policeman's gun when he was being led to a vehicle. A shot was fired and Yevloyev was injured in the head.
Fierce critic
Yevloyev was a thorn in the side of Ingush President Murat Zyazikov, a former KGB general.
His website reported on alleged Russian security force brutality in Ingushetia, an impoverished province of some half a million people, mostly Muslims, which is now more turbulent than neighbouring Chechnya.
Zyazikov's a former KGB guy? Hey, Vlad Putin's a former KGB guy too! And journalists who put a bug up his ass also end up dead.
Addendum
The NYT described Yevloyev as a journalist. It added this detail:
The Russian prosecutor general’s office said the journalist, Magomed Yevloyev, was shot in the temple while being driven from the airport to a police station, and said it would open an investigation into an accidental death.
“While police officers were attempting to transfer M. Yevloyev to an Interior Ministry office, an incident occurred,” said Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the investigative committee of the prosecutor general’s office, according to the Interfax news agency. “M. Yevloyev received a gunshot wound to the temple area.”
The local police in Ingushetia, meanwhile, told the news agency that Mr. Yevloyev was arrested for taking part in a terrorist bombing, and that he had tried to grab an assault rifle from a police officer in the car.