Investigators in Russia's Dagestan province say a man killed by police on suspicion of being a militant was a security officer for a town mayor.
The man was killed Sunday when police opened fire on a car near the town of Khasavyurt after the driver refused to stop for a document check. Two other men in the car were wounded.
Police initially said the three victims were suspected militants. But Dagestan's chief investigator said Tuesday that the dead victim was a security officer at the Khasavyurt mayor's office and one of the two wounded is a local policeman.
Nizami Radzhabov said the police had apparently been warned militants might be traveling in the same kind of car.