MOSCOW, April 10 (Xinhuanet) -- A retired general of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Moscow Sunday evening, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.

    Colonel General Anatoly Trofimov, who was a former head of the FSB branch for Moscow and the Moscow region, was killed when the gunmen opened fire on his jeep in a northern residential area of Moscow at around 7:30 p.m. (1530 GMT), police said.

    His wife was seriously injured and rushed to hospital for treatment, police said.

    An investigation team made up of representatives of the FSB, the Interior Ministry and the Prosecutor's Office is examining the crime scene and questioning eyewitnesses, a police source was quoted as saying.

    "There is preliminary information that two unidentified men in a car opened submachine gun fire at Anatoly Trofimov and his wife Tatiana Kopytsyna," the source said.

    Trofimov was a deputy head of the Soviet Union's State Security Committee (KGB) investigation department and then headed the FSB branch for Moscow and the Moscow region until his retirement in 1996. Enditem