Azerbaijan's air force chief killed

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Source: al Jazeera

The head of Azerbaijan's air force has been shot dead outside his home in the capital Baku, an interior ministry spokesman has said.

Lieutenant General Rail Rzayev, who died in a hospital after being shot in the head, is the most senior official to have been killed in Azerbaijan since the country's war with neighbouring Armenia in 1990.

Sadiq Gozalov, the interior ministry spokesman, said military prosecutors would be probing Rzayev's killing on Wednesday.

He said he had no information regarding a possible motive for the shooting.

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