MOSCOW (CNN) — Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was killed Friday night, shot several times from a car on a bridge he was walking across, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation said in a statement Saturday.
He was deputy prime minister in the late 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin and had been one of current President Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critics.
Putin condemned the killing of Nemtsov, Russian state broadcaster, Russia Today, said early Saturday.
“The Russian President expresses deep condolences to the near and dear of Boris Nemtsov who died tragically,” a spokesman for Putin told Russian state news agency Itar-Tass.
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