Four casualties of CTO in Dagestani Kizilyurt District identified

Four out of seven casualties of the counterterrorist operation (CTO), conducted in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, have been pre-identified. Among them, there are the persons wanted for the murder of Colonel Salimgereev. Four other suspected militants managed to escape.

On February 25, power agents discovered a dugout in the territory of the Kizilyurt District, where militants were hiding. Then, four villages of the district – Nechaevka, Sultan-Yangiyurt, Chontaul and Kirovaul – were put under the CTO regime. According to the Operative Headquarters of Dagestan, seven militants were killed in the CTO; one special fighter was lost and another one was wounded. The CTO regime was lifted on March 2.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reported about identification of one person – Oleg Shalyapin, born in 1979, who was on the federal wanted list.

In total, to date, four casualties have been pre-identified. Apart from Shalyapin, who took the post of a "naib" (closest aide), another leader of the Kizilyurt grouping – Ali Magomeddibirov, who was the "Amir", was also killed. The remaining two are Murad Abdulatipov and Shamil Magomedgaziev, the "Kommersant" writes, referring to its own sources.

Let us remind you that Shalyapin and Abdulatipov were wanted in connection with the murder in July 2014 of Internal Troops Colonel Aitemir Salimgereev, ex-head of the GOVD (City Interior Division) of Kizilyurt. The colonel was tortured in his summer cottage; suffered multiple stab wounds; and, finally, the attackers cut off his head.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.