Reference the original incident

Two hunters have managed to escape from assailants who shot dead seven of their counterparts in the southern Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, a spokesman for the united information center of the republic's law enforcement agencies said on Saturday.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20101218/161835529.html

and
http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cach...Hash=05f02ececc

UNHCR overview on how lethal the area has become
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4d2597602.html