FSB: Emir of Grozny liquidated in special operation in Dagestan

Today, from late at night a section of the Irchi Kazak Street in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, where the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was introduced, was completely blocked by several ATCs (armoured troop-carriers) with unjacketed machine guns. Numerous law enforcers and FSB agents of Dagestan arrived to the area in KAMAZ trucks. According to the FSB, Emir of Grozny Salambek Akhmadov was liquidated, and one of law enforcers was wounded.

The spokesperson of the press service of the MIA of Dagestan told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that members of an illegal armed formation (IAF) had been blocked in one of apartments of No. 5; therefore, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was introduced there. Later it became known that one of suspected militants hired an apartment there.

A tenant of the house, who named himself as Magomed, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the action started at 4 in the morning. "Several armed persons in masks were already behind the door. They said that a special operation would soon begin; therefore, we should get out into the street. <…> In a couple of minutes a submachine round was heard, then - silence," he said.

He could not say anything about casualties or victims. At about 8 in the morning the street was unblocked, and journalists arrived to the place of the incident; but the house was still cordoned.

One of the militiamen said that one militant had been killed in the special operation: he refused to surrender and opened fire on militiamen and wounded one of them. "The wound is light; there's no threat to his life," he has noted and added that nothing was known about the liquidated militant.

Meanwhile, according to the press service of the FSB for Dagestan, in the course of today's special operations in Makhachkala, Salambek Akhmadov, born in 1969, Emir of Grozny, was killed. While searching the apartment, operative agents saw a self-made grenade in the militant's hands' also a Kalashnikov and ammunition were found in the room.