A mayoral candidate in the Russian city of Dalnegorsk has died after being shot with an assault rifle near his electoral headquarters., RIA Novosti news agency reported on Thursday.

Dmitriy Fotyanov, a member of the pro-Kremlin United Rusia party and a candidate in the mayoral elections scheduled for Sunday was exiting his electoral headquarters on Thursday morning when an undentified person shot him with a Kalashnikov rifle. Police has failed to detain the killer.

The second tour of elections, in which Dmitriy Fotyanov and his rival Alexandr Terebilov were to compete for the first post in the city, was scheduled on October 22. According to the preliminary information, in the first tour of the elections Fotyanov and Terebilov got 9486 and 9850 votes respectively.

Regional electoral commission said that the Sunday elections would be held as planned despite of the death of one of the candidates.

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