Two persons killed in armed incident in Khasavyurt

According to updated information, two persons were killed in a shootout, which occurred in Khasavyurt in the evening of March 25.

The incident occurred in Khasavyurt in Makhmudov Street at 9:00 p.m. Moscow time on March 25. Policemen conducted operational and search activities, when they were shelled while they tried to check the documents for a Lada Priora car.

One of the attackers was killed at the place by return fire. The second attacker was brought to hospital with a gunshot wound, and he died there.

No law enforcer suffered in the incident, the website of the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

According to the investigating authorities, the killed persons have been preliminary identified as Murad Mikhralov, born in 1987, and Shamkhal Salatkhanov, born in 1994, members of a terrorist grouping.

It should be noted that on March 16, the CTO regime was introduced in the Khasavyurt District. There, like in four other districts of Dagestan, the law enforcers are engaged in the search for suspected militants.

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