Top prosecutor to probe war critic's murder

Russia’s top prosecutor today took charge of investigating the murder of a journalist who was a prominent critic of the war in Chechnya and planned to publish a story about torture and abductions in the region.

Anna Politkovskaya, a 48-year-old mother-of-two who had chronicled abuses against civilians in Chechnya in the outspoken newspaper Novaya Gazeta, was found dead on Saturday in the lift in her building in Moscow. She had two gunshot wounds – one to the head.