From April 28 to May 4, seven persons fell victim to armed conflict in North Caucasus

During the period from April 28 to May 4, 2014, at least seven people suffered from the armed conflict in North Caucasus; of them five were killed and two wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The death toll includes four suspected members of the armed underground – two in the Stavropol Territory, one in Dagestan and Chechnya each, and one civilian from Dagestan.

Attacks on law enforcers

On April 30, in the village of Kasumkent of the Suleiman-Stalsky District of Dagestan, an armed attack was committed on a district police inspector, who was hospitalized with gunshot wounds.

On May 2, in the village of Pervomaiskaya, employees of the division of the Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the Grozny District of Chechnya stopped a man to check his documents; the latter resisted and threw a grenade at the policemen. The grenade blew up and inflicted numerous fragmental wounds to the attacker himself.

Special and counterterrorist operations

At night on April 28, law enforcers conducted a special operation some 5-6 kilometres off the village of Irgakly, Stepnovsk District of the Stavropol Territory. At about 4 a.m., in the wooded area in the territory of the Irgakly Reserve, law enforcers tried to detain a suspicious VAZ-2107 car with three armed men inside; however, they opened fire. During the shootout two of them were killed, and one managed to run away. One of the policemen was contused. While inspecting the car, policemen found an IED in the trunk and automatic firearms. Both casualties of the armed clash with policemen in the Stepnovsk District of the Stavropol Territory were identified as residents of Dagestan Nizam Asaliev and Gusein Magomedov. Relatives of both of them had stated that they disappeared on April 26.

On April 29, the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan was put under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime. In the outskirt of the village of Ullubiyaul, where houses were inspected within the CTO, a suspected militant was found hiding in a house basement. He tried to throw a grenade at the power agents, but could not throw it far enough; it exploded and killed him. The victim was preliminarily identified as Mukhtar Djamalov, born in 1978. According to law enforcers, he was a member of the so-called "Kadar" grouping.

Attacks on civilians

In the evening on April 26, Gadji Gasanguseinov, the chairman of an agricultural cooperative from the Kizilyurt District, was sot dead in Dagestan. He drove out of the dairy farm in the village of Stalskoye, but did not reach his home; and in the morning on April 27 his car with his body was found near the village of Shushanovka. Inspectors detected bullet wounds of the chest and abdomen. Under the main version, the entrepreneur could be killed by members of the local subversive and terrorist "Kizilyurt" grouping. According to investigators, Gasanguseinov received several threats from them with demands to donate a large sum of money "on the jihad."