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The Security Council of Ingushetia has denied information about an attack on morgue guards in Nazran
The Security Council of Ingushetia refuted the information that in Nazran about 100 people attacked the policemen and took the body of the killed militant from the morgue.
A representative of the Security Council said that relatives of the militant arrived at the morgue, who had a decision to hand over the body for burial. According to a representative of the Security Council, they had a small scuffle with the guards due to a "misunderstanding." The body of the deceased was handed over to relatives in the prescribed manner.
"The authorities of Ingushetia do not fight with the killed militants, and even more so with their relatives," the representative of the Security Council noted.
- The conflict between the family of the killed militant and the guards of the morgue in Nazran was previously reported by news agencies, citing unnamed sources. Interfax reported that the militant's relatives "staged a brawl and, due to their numerical superiority, disarmed the police officers and took out the body of the murdered man."
- On May 26, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) reported that as a result of a special operation in Nazran and Malgobek, five militants were killed and three more were detained. The NAC claims that the militants were associated with the Islamic State (an organization recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia and banned). The militants put up armed resistance, during the operation they seized automatic weapons, grenades and pistols.
- In Russia, since 2002, it has been forbidden to hand over the bodies of killed militants to relatives. They are buried where they were killed, with the families not being told the exact location of the burial. The ban was introduced after the terrorist attack on the theater center on Dubrovka. In 2007, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation confirmed that this practice does not contradict the Constitution. The head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, in 2011 advocated giving the bodies of the killed militants to their families.