Law enforcers identify four men killed together with Rustam Asilderov

In Makhachkala, two militants Gadji Mirzaev and Shamil Djakhbarov were killed together with Rustam Asilderov. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement authorities. According to the source, Akhmed Amaev and Anvar Labazanov, who were killed there, were accomplices of the militants.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on December 3, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime was introduced in the village of Talghi on the outskirts of Makhachkala. Law enforcers cordoned off a private house, which sheltered men suspected of involvement in the armed underground. During negotiations, they opened fire and were killed by return fire. In total, five militants were killed.

According to the source, the cordoned-off house belonged to 42-year-old Anvar Labazanov.

Besides, three other men have been preliminary identified. Their number includes 24-year-old Gadji Mirzaev, the suspected leader of the "Kadar" grouping of militants in Dagestan. According to the updated information, he was involved in the terror acts committed in Volgograd in December 2013. Besides, according to field investigators, Gadji Mirzaev was involved in the murder of Migitin Djavatov, the head of the village of Karamakhi, killed in September 2015, and Shamil Ibakov, who testified against Gadji Mirzaev in a case on a policeman's murder.

One more killed man was identified as Shamil Djakhbarov. According to law enforcers, he joined militants in April 2016, after an attack on a checkpoint of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) at the village of Nizhny Djengutai of the Buynaksk District.

The number of the killed suspects also includes Akhmed Amaev, who, according to the law enforcers, was an accomplice of militants.

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