Peaceful resident of Makhachkala, killed in skirmish, was announced militant, his uncle states

One of the eyewitnesses of the special operation in Makhachkala on September 24 asserts that an innocent peaceful resident was killed in it and later announced to be a militant. Kurban Magomedov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that his nephew, Alikhan Dinov, 26, occasionally happened to be there and got into the skirmish.

Mr Magomedov said that on the day of the special operation his cousin Gasan Muslimov and Alikhan Dinov went on their business in Muslimov's car along the lively Kazbekova Street, when they noticed a "Zhiguli" car driving ahead, which suddenly blocked another car of the same model.

Several armed persons in sportswear, some of them in masks, jumped out of the first car. They quickly surrounded the blocked one, cried something to its passengers; fire was opened in response out of the car. The attackers also opened chaotic fire.

Magomedov rushed down onto the floor of the car, while Dinov and Muslimov jumped out. Then, the latter quickly jumped back inside, while Dinov jogged to the trees with the aim to hide behind them. At that moment automatic fire resumed.

When fire stopped, Magomedov jumped out of the car and noticed that his bleeding nephew was lying some 50 meters away from the place of the incident. Magomedov shouted to militiamen that they had killed an innocent; they answered that he had got what he deserved.

In the presence of Magomedov, Muslimov and other witnesses the militiamen made a control pistol shot in Dinov's head. Then, his body together with the bodies of two other casualties was thrown into the car and brought to the morgue.

Magomedov called his relatives and friends, and a crowd of people gathered at the morgue, demanding to give out the body. It was given out to them in the morning on September 25. Dinov's body had 28 traces of bullet wounds.