Three persons killed in special operation in Makhachkala

The active phase of the special operation in Makhachkala is over: three suspected militants have been killed.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that within the special operation, a multi-storey apartment house was blocked. According to preliminary data of power agents, the members of the so-called "Makhachkala" grouping Zaur Begov, Abumuslim Gasanov and Mirzabek Idrisov were hiding there.

During the storming of the house the above three militants were shot dead, the "Interfax" reports, citing a source from law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

Two of those three were on the federal wanted list. Law enforcers believe that they were directly involved in a number of armed assaults, robberies, extortions, as well as explosions and armed attacks, including the shelling of road-and-patrol service (RPS) unit in September 2013, the attack on the patrol-and-post service (PPS) post in Makhachkala, and shelling from a grenade launcher of the building of the Centre to Combat Extremism in August 2014.

Besides, in 2014, they participated in the killing of a gas station owner, who refused to pay tribute to militants, and his son; and in March 2015 – in the attempt on the deputy head of the Karabudakhkent ROVD (District Interior Division), the TASS reports with reference to the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

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