Four militants were eliminated in Ingushetia

In Ingushetia, four militants were killed by security forces during the counter-terrorist operation in the village of Pedsedi in the Malgobek district in the north-west of the republic. This was reported on Wednesday by a source in law enforcement.

"According to preliminary data, four militants blocked in a private house on Aziroev Street were eliminated," the agency’s interlocutor said.

According to Interfax National Anti -Terrorism Committee, a group of militants was neutralized, including leaders and participants in the so -called "Malgobeca gang", which were on the federal wanted list for a long time. During the confrontation of security forces and militants in the house in which the bandits were hiding, a powerful explosion occurred. The structure is completely destroyed. There are no losses among law enforcement officers and victims among the civilian population.

According to the Republican Office of the FSB of Russia, the murdered militants are involved in the organization and commission of a number of terrorist crimes. It was established that in March they were fired at the UFSB building in Malgobek from a grenade launcher, in April they shot two traffic police officers, and in May they made an armed attack on the post of Malgobecsky police.

According to a source in law enforcement agencies, according to preliminary data, the militants are identified as Bekhan Soltukiev, Mikail Cherbizhev and Khasan Khatsiev.

Members of the gang underground, liquidated in the village of Psedas, nurtured plans to commit terrorist attacks in the region, Yunus Bek Evkurov, head of Ingushetia, told Interfax. According to him, such information was received by the security authorities, the operation was a continuation of a series of special affairs in the fight against bandits.

Evkurov instructed to hold an unscheduled meeting of the anti -terrorist commission of the republic and an official investigation against officials who allowed suspicious persons in the entrusted territory. “Why didn’t they see this? If they had interaction with the population, the inhabitants of this street would have come to them, the neighbors would have reported suspicious people,” said the Ingush leader. He called on the heads of municipalities not to lose vigilance.

Earlier it was reported that in the village of Psedahs of the Malgobek district of Ingushetia on the morning of August 23, the regime of the counter -terrorism operation (KO) was introduced.

TASS in the group of public relations of the FSB of the Russian Federation in the republic said that the decision was made "in order to suppress terrorist acts and terrorist crimes" by the head of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation on Ingushetia. Later it became known that the security forces blocked a private house where the militants settled.