The attackers set hearth to a synagogue and a Russian Orthodox church, and in addition attacked one other Orthodox church. On Monday, Russian authorities verify that the loss of life toll has risen to twenty. A number of wounded are being handled in hospital.
Amongst these killed is Orthodox archpriest Nikolai Kotelnikov, 66 years previous. He was killed within the church the place he had been working for over 40 years, on the orthodox day of Pentecost.
Gunmen set the synagogue in Dagestan on hearth and severely broken it.
Photograph: AP
Kotelnikov was brutally killed in entrance of a number of members of the family, says the governor of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov on Telegram.
Native authorities say the attackers minimize Kotelnikov’s throat earlier than setting hearth to the church, the AP information company studies.
No less than 15 of the victims are law enforcement officials, and 4 are civilians, together with an Orthodox priest, in line with Russian investigators.
Six gunmen had been additionally shot and killed, in line with the Reuters information company. It isn’t recognized whether or not there are extra offenders on the whole.
Three days of nationwide mourning
– It is a tragic day for Dagestan, and for our complete nation, stated Governor Melikov.
Three days of nationwide mourning have been launched throughout the area.
Final night time armed males attacked a synagogue and two church buildings within the metropolis of Derbent, and a checkpoint within the provincial capital Makhachkala. The assaults had been carried out concurrently.
Eyewitness movies present an unidentified man in a white Volkswagen Polo capturing at individuals and vehicles.
Russian authorities say armed males attacked a synagogue and two church buildings within the Russian Republic of Dagestan.
In response to Russia’s state-controlled information company RIA, one of many criminals killed was now a district chief of the Simply Russia get together. This should have been confirmed by the get together management RIA.
Russian Right now writes that two of the alleged criminals had been arrested on the seaside in Makhachkala.
On a video from the incident, a number of households and youngsters could be seen operating from the incident.
NRK correspondent in Moscow, Gro Holm, studies on the assaults.
Referred to as a terrorist assault
Russian authorities describe the assaults as terrorism, in line with RIA.
Nobody has claimed duty for the assault. Governor Melikov and the Russian Overseas Affairs Committee have hinted at allegations that Ukraine is concerned in “overseas support”.
Russian authorities made comparable claims in March, when 143 individuals had been killed in a terrorist assault on a live performance corridor in Moscow.
Vladimir Putin then blamed the assault on Ukraine, with out presenting any proof, and though the terrorist group IS shortly afterwards claimed duty for the assault.
One of many poorest areas in Russia
Dagestan is positioned on the Caspian Sea, on the border with Chechnya, and is among the many poorest areas of Russia. The republic has about 3 million inhabitants, the vast majority of whom are Muslims.
Town of Derbent, the place a synagogue and two church buildings had been attacked, is 125 kilometers away from the provincial capital and has a Jewish inhabitants with a protracted historical past within the space. It was right here that Archpriest Kotelnikov was killed.
The assaults are stated to have taken place in Dagestan, one among Russia’s 22 republics.
The rabbi of Makhachkala, Rami Davidov, tells RIA that nobody was killed or injured within the synagogue.
Hit with a number of assaults
Dagestan has beforehand been the scene of a number of assaults by radical Islamists, particularly the group Jihad Caucasus Emirate, which was significantly lively from 2007 to 2011.
A spokesman for the Kremlin was requested right this moment if Russia feared a return to this era.
– It is not. Now there may be one other Russia. Society is united and such terrorist assaults will not be supported in Russia or Dagestan, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated.
That is considered an image from a video of a constructing on hearth within the metropolis of Derbent in Dagestan. The picture has not been verified by NRK.
Photograph: Reuters
In October 2023, round 20 individuals had been injured when a whole bunch of anti-Israel protesters stormed an airport in Dagestan, Russia, in line with native authorities.
A small variety of Israelis and Jews on the airport had been then separated and brought to security by Russian safety forces.
The deadliest assault in Russia occurred in September 2004.
Then a faculty within the city of Beslan was stormed by armed Chechens and was held hostage for a number of days. Greater than 300 hostages had been killed, half of them kids.
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