Official: Russian opposition leader Nemtsov shot dead

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Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, pictured in Moscow on December 5, 2012, was shot dead in central Moscow overnight, an interior ministry spokesman said -© AFP/File

MOSCOW: Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was shot dead in central Moscow overnight Friday, an interior ministry spokesman told AFP.

“In central Moscow, a man with documents in the name of Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov was killed,” an interior ministry spokesman told AFP, declining to give further details.

Moscow police confirmed the killing. -AFP