Power agents declare links of Nalchik casualties with IS

A law enforcement source reports that special services have established links of the militants killed in Nalchik with the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS).

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was introduced at 3:00 a.m. in the territory within Lenin Avenue and the streets Kuashev, Rybalko, Schors, Kabardinskaya and Tolstoy Streets. According to the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), six persons were killed in the CTO, namely: Sultan Abshaev, Marat Dotkulov, Amir Kazberigev, brothers Murat and Aslan Bogotov, and the owner of the blocked apartment, the "LifeNews" reports.

According to the law enforcement source, the militants, killed in Nalchik, "were assembling bomb according to the technology of the IS" (the activities of the IS is prohibited in Russia, Turkey, United States and other countries, – note of the "Caucasian Knot").

The "Kommersant" reports with reference of power agents that the service documents and pistol of Marat Tokov, an employee of the Prosecutor's Office of the KBR, killed on July 14, were found in the place of the armed clash.

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