16:40, 10 December 2012

FSB: Suleiman Shankhoev, coordinator of "suicide battalion" killed in Ingushetia

According to preliminary data, today in Ingushetia during a skirmish in the village of Dolakovo, Suleiman Shankhoev, the coordinator of the team of suicide bombers "Riyad al-Saliheen", banned in Russia, was killed, said the press service of the FSB Department for Ingushetia.

Two unidentified men opened fire on law enforcers at about 8:00 a.m. and were killed by return fire; the police officers were not injured, the Department for Ingushetia of the ICRF reports.

According to the press service of the above FSB Department, one of the casualties was preliminarily identified previously as the coordinator of the "suicide battalion Riyad as-Saliheen" in the territory of the plain part of Ingushetia Suleiman Shankhoev, born in 1982, the RIA "Novosti" reports.

Suleiman Shankhoev could be accompanied by Khasan Nalgiev (call sign "Abududjann") and Ibragim Torshkhoev (call sign "Khattab"), operative agents of the FSB report.

In the near future, a genetic examination will be held with the aim to identify those killed in the village of Dolakovo, the news portal "INGnews" reports.