President of Dagestan offers to posthumously award militiamen who perished in Kizlyar

Only due to operative actions of employees of the STSI (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, known in Russia as "GIBDD") in Kizlyar, who blocked the terrorist-suicide-bomber's car, much greater damage of the explosion were avoided. This is the opinion of the Department for ensuring traffic safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia.

Let us remind you that today in the morning a twin terror act was committed in the Dagestan city of Kizlyar.

In total, according to the latest information, the explosion in Kizlyar killed 12 persons and about 30 more were injured. 17 Kizlyar victims were brought by helicopters to medical establishments of Makhachkala. Nine victims are in the Central City Hospital of Kizlyar, two of them are in grave condition.

Already today Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an order to pay out lump sum compensations to the victims and casualties' families from Kizlyar.

In his turn, President of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov said that the republic would petition for posthumous government awards to the lost law enforcers, as the "Vesti.Ru" reports.

In his address to residents of his republic Mr Magomedov called the Dagestan people to get united in combating terrorists who try "to provoke distrust to the power and kindle interethnic enmity," and try "to disrupt and destabilize the existing order," the RIA "Dagestan" reports.

President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov offered his help to the head of Dagestan in the struggle against terrorists, the "Gazeta.Ru" writes.

Meanwhile, the investigation into the incident continues. Explosion experts have already established the power of the first bomb triggered today in Kizlyar. Under preliminary data, it made about 200 kilos of trotyl equivalent.

Inspectors think that a local resident Daud Dzhabrailov was the Kizlyar terrorist-suicide-bomber. As reported by Nizami Radzhabov, senior assistant to the head of the Investigatory Department of the ICPO of Russia for Dagestan for contacts with media, the suicide-bomber was identified by the fragments of his body.

Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin said today at the sitting of the presidium of his government that the terror acts in Kizlyar could be organized by the same terrorists who had prepared the explosions in Moscow metro. He offered to view it as a crime against all Russia.

In 2009 and the start of 2010, Dagestan saw one explosion in each committed by suicide-bombers. In total 9 persons were lost in them, including the suicide-bombers, and 31 persons were injured. A self-suicidal terror act was committed on January 6, 2010, in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan. Six militiamen were lost. 19 persons, including civilians, received various traumas. On September 1, 2009, a terrorist-suicide-bomber blew up his car near the northern post of the STSI, also in Makhachkala, when he was stopped for checking documents. 13 persons were wounded, one of them later died.