Russian authorities say more than 15 police officers and several civilians including an orthodox priest have been killed by armed militants in the southern Republic of dagistan they say the gunmen open fire on two Orthodox Churches a synagogue and a police post in Two Cities Sunday Russia’s National anti-terrorist Committee described the attacks in the predominantly Muslim region with a history of armed militancy as terrorist acts we can say that it was a highly uh plann attack skillfully planned because it uh involved different locations for attacks it involve a huge amount of weapons and ammunitions it involved also the possibility for the attackers to uh actually uh seize uh police vents equipments from the police Security Forces they were able to storm a different building they were able to kill uh civilian and uh then also they tried to uh to take shelter in one of these buildings and to take hostages the fact that two of the uh attackers allegedly were the son of the District Governor of a District Governor and uh and this is a very interesting background uh because uh it really show how the people who carried out this attack were entrenched in the uh in the fabri in the in the fabric of the society and they were close to the administration level so this might also have helped them in uh moving around Security checks and also having access to information which militants do not have
The death toll from a series of brazen attacks on churches and synagogues in Russia’s mainly Muslim region of Dagestan rose to 20 on Monday, after gunmen went on the rampage in coordinated attacks in two of the republic’s most important cities.
Gunmen with automatic weapons burst into an Orthodox church and a synagogue in the ancient city of Derbent on Sunday evening, setting fire to an icon at the church and killing a 66-year-old Orthodox priest, Nikolai Kotelnikov. In the city of Makhachkala, about 125 kilometres north on the Caspian Sea shore, attackers shot at a traffic police post and attacked a church.
Sergei Melikov, governor of the Dagestan region, visited the church and house where Kotelnikov used to live in the Dagestani town of Derbent.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the attack on Christian and Jewish places of worship stoked fears Russia may be facing a renewed militant Islamist threat just three months after a deadly attack in Moscow.
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