Police say gunmen seized Uruskhan Zyazikov in the village of Barsuki near the republic's capital, Nazran, today.
Police said two of Uruskhan Zyazikov's relatives were injured in the abduction.
Kidnappings and shoot-outs are common in Ingushetia, a Russian region bordering Chechnya.
Murat Zyazikov became Ingushetia's president in 2002 as part of a Kremlin effort to crack down on crime and prevent the Chechen insurgency from spreading.
(Reuters, AP, Interfax, ITAR-TASS)
The Chechnya Conflict
The Chechnya Conflict
The aftermath of a December 2002 Chechen resistance attack on the main government building in Grozny (epa)
CHRONOLOGY
The fighting in Chechnya has raged, with short breaks, since 1994. It has brought misery, death, and destruction to the North Caucasus republic and to Russia as a whole. View an annotated timeline of the conflict.
