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Moscow Railways Official Shot Dead

The deputy head of the Moscow Railways was shot and killed in eastern Moscow as he was getting into his car to drive to work Tuesday morning.

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The deputy head of the Moscow Railways was shot and killed in eastern Moscow as he was getting into his car to drive to work Tuesday morning.

At 7:50 a.m., two unknown gunmen approached Sergei Paristy, 41, near his house on Malenkovskaya Ulitsa, opened fire on him as he was getting into the car and then ran away in the direction of the Sokolniki metro station, said Svetlana Petrenko, a spokeswoman for the Moscow prosecutor's office.

Paristy was still alive when a neighbor walking her dog found him, but he died before the police and ambulance arrived, NTV reported. Investigators said it was an apparent contract hit and they were looking into various possibilities: that it was related to Paristy's work or other business activities, or that the killers had a personal grudge.

Paristy, the son of a former Moscow Railways head, had coordinated his agency's regional activities since May.

Moscow Railways, one of 17 branches making up Russia's railroad system, controls a 9,281-kilometer network of tracks in the Moscow region and surrounding regions.

Source: Agencies

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