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Ukraine underworld killing

Friday 16 May 1997 23:02 BST
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The state property privatisation chief on Ukraine's Crimean peninsula was gunned down in what authorities said appeared to be an underworld contract killing.

Neighbours found Crimean State Property Fund director Alexei Golovizin lying in the corridor outside his apartment in Simferopol with three gunshot wounds. He died in hospital about 20 minutes later. AP - Simferopol

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