o conclude that the authorities failed to carry out a thorough and effective investigation into the circumstances surrounding the disappearance and deaths of the applicants' eight relatives. It accordingly dismisses the Government's objection as regards the applicants' failure to exhaust domestic remedies within the context of the criminal proceedings, and holds that there has been a violation of Article 2 of the Convention on that account.
IV. Alleged violation of Article 3 of the Convention
97. The applicants complained that their relatives had been ill-treated by State agents, and that no investigation had been carried out into the matter. They also complained that during a fortnight when their relatives remained missing they had suffered severe mental distress and anguish in connection with their relatives' disappearance. The applicants referred to Article 3 of the Convention, which reads as follows:
"No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."
A. Alleged ill-treatment of the applicants' relatives
98. The applicants submitted that some of the killed men had had gunshot wounds to their extremities, which in the applicants' opinion confirmed that they had been subjected to inhuman treatment.
99. The Government contended that the investigation had obtained no evidence confirming that the applicants' eight relatives had been subjected to treatment in breach of Article 3 of the Convention. They argued that the reports on the forensic medical examination of 12 April 2004 did not attest the presence on the corpses of any injuries other than multiple gunshot wounds.
1. Admissibility
100. The Court notes that this part of the application is not manifestly ill-founded within the meaning of Article 35 § 3 of the Convention. It further notes that it is not inadmissible on any other grounds. It must therefore be declared admissible.
2. Merits
101. The Court observes that the expert reports of 12 April 2004 attest the presence on the bodies of the applicants' relatives of multiple gunshot wounds, or injuries caused by gunshots (see paragraph 66 above) and state that the applicants' relatives died as a result of those injuries. The Court further observes that, according to the expert reports, some of the corpses, indeed, had gunshot wounds to the extremities, as alleged by the applicants. Also, the report drawn up in respect of Isa Khadzhimuradov attests the traumatic amputation of the teeth on the right side of the jaw. On the other hand, this latter report does not specify the cause of the traumatic amputation of his teeth, or the time when that injury could have been inflicted. Moreover, the reports do not indicate that the other dead bodies had any signs of violence, which might have raised a suspicion that the applicants' relatives were ill-treated before their death. As regards multiple gunshot wounds, or injuries caused by gunshots, found on the bodies, the findings of the reports of 12 April 2004 do not enable the Court to conclude that those were inflicted on the applicants' relatives in the course of ill-treatment, which might have brought Article 3 of the Convention into play, rather than in a series of lethal shots, which raises an issue under Article 2.
102. Against this background, the Court is unable to find that, in the circumstances of the present case, any issue arises separate from the above conclusions that there has been a violation of Article 2 of the Convention, in its substantive and procedural aspects (see paragraphs 84 and 96 above).
B. Alleged mental suffering of the applicants
103. The applicants stated that they had been close relatives of the men who had been abducted and k
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