Four people have been detained on suspicion of killing a top Muslim cleric and injuring another in Russia’s Tatarstan province, prosecutors said today.

A top Muslim cleric has been shot dead and another injured by a car bomb in Russia’s Tatarstan province, officials said.

MICHAEL O’NEILL fears Shamrock Rovers will face their biggest trial yet against classy Rubin Kazan here in the depths of freezing Tatarstan tonight.

RUSSIA said there was little hope of finding any more people alive after an overloaded tourist boat sank in the Volga river, killing as many as 128 people in Russia’s worst river accident in three decades.

Dozens of children are believed to be among 101 people missing after a 56-year-old tourist boat with 188 people on board listed and sank in one of the world’s largest reservoirs.

EMERGENCY officials say that 102 people, including dozens of children, are missing and at least one is dead after a passenger boat with more than 180 people on board sank in the Volga River yesterday.

ISLAND Oil & Gas, the Dublin- headquartered exploration company is expanding its international presence to eastern Europe.

Aminex, the oil and gas company listed on the London and Irish Stock Exchanges, announced yesterday that it has completed an agreement to sell its shareholding in OAO Ideloil, an oil company operating in the Russian internal republic of Tatarstan, to Dolkono Holdings Limited and Nereids Holdings Limited.