**The head of a Russian charity and her husband have been found dead in Chechnya a day after their abduction, activists and officials said.**The bodies of Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband were found with gunshot wounds in a car boot near the Chechen capital, an interior ministry official said.
Armed men seized the two on Monday from the offices of Ms Sadulayeva’s charity, Let’s Save the Generation.
The case follows July’s abduction and killing of activist Natalia Estemirova.
On Tuesday, Alexander Cherkasov of the Memorial human rights group was quoted as saying that Ms Sadulayeva’s body and that of her husband had been found in the Chernorechye suburb of the Chechen capital, Grozny.
Let’s Save the Generation supports children affected by violence in war-torn Chechnya.
The southern Russian republic was the site of years of war between local separatists and Russian forces in the 1990s.
Ms Estemirova was a prominent campaigner who had been investigating human rights abuses in Chechnya for Memorial.
She was found dead shortly after being bundled into a car outside her home in Grozny. Her killing provoked an international outcry.