Makhachkala resident opens fire near shopping center

Law enforcement agencies in Dagestan are searching for a man who opened fire near a shopping center in Makhachkala; the second participant in the conflict has been taken to the police. The incident was triggered by a passerby's "interested" look at the shooter's wife.

The incident occurred this evening near the Etazhi shopping center, located at the intersection of Gamidov and Imam Shamil avenues in Makhachkala.

"A conflict occurred between two men, one of whom fired several shots from a traumatic pistol towards his opponent and fled the scene," the official Telegram channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Dagestan reported.

One of the participants in the incident was taken to the police department, and the shooter is being sought, the department clarified. According to them, no one was injured as a result of the shooting.

The details of the incident are given in her Telegram channel "Criminal Chronicle" by the head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan Gayana Gariyeva. According to her, the man with the gun did not like the look of a random passerby at his wife, who was walking next to him.

"A man passed by them, whose look, cast at the woman, did not please one of them (either the wife, and she shared this with her husband, or the husband himself). The woman was dressed in a niqab. Despite this, the passerby's look seemed overly interested to the spouses," she writes.

Gariyeva confirms that the shooter "did not hit anyone" and there were no casualties as a result of the incident. The weapon was presumably traumatic.

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