Three Granger Telecom employees and an independent contractor were killed in Chechnya, the breakaway republic of Russia located north of Georgia.
Granger Telecom employees Darren Hickey, Rudolph Petschi and Stan Shaw, and independent consultant Peter Kennedy were taken hostage on 3 October while installing a wireless local loop system for Chechen Telecom.
The men were found dead in early December. Granger is a United Kingdom-based company.
Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov blamed a Chechen Islamic group-the Islamic Jimaats-for the attack.
Following the kidnapping, Granger took steps to transfer the responsibility for installing equipment to employees of Chechen Telecom.
