Three police officers were killed in Dagestan

Two police officers died during a shootout with unknown in the Dagestan city of Kaspiysk on August 28, RIA "Dagestan" reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies of the region.

According to preliminary data, two criminals were destroyed and another was wounded, Interfax reports with reference to his source.

At the same time, the TASS agency transferred with reference to a source in the power structures of the republic that two unknown people attacked three policemen knives, when law enforcement officers were refueling a service car.

As a result, one police officer died, the other was taken to the hospital, and the attackers were killed, the agency’s interlocutor said. According to him, the victims are employees of the patrol service.

"The attack occurred on Makhachkalinskaya Street, right on the gas station. Two knives and attributes of IG*. The dead policeman - senior sergeant Mirzaev S.K. born in 1990, was seized from the scene of the attack," the source said.

The emergency services of Kaspiysk specified that the attack was committed at 08:55 Moscow time, the attackers were attacked, and a plan for intercepting Siren was currently introduced in Kaspiysk, the agency reports.

Another silovik died on the outskirts of Khasavyurt

Later on the same day, the information center of the National Anti -Terrorism Committee (NAC) said that one law enforcement officer died and one was injured during a special operation to neutralize armed bandits in the Khasavyurt district of Dagestan on August 28.

“The criminals opened random firing on the proposal to put up weapons and surrender to the authorities, as a result of which two law enforcement officers were injured, one of them was a wound incompatible with life,” Interfax quotes the NAC message.

Earlier, the agency reported that the security forces surrounded three houses in the village of Balyurt on the outskirts of the city of Khasavyurt, where the militants of the Khasavyurt group settled. Then the agency’s source said that as a result of the assault on the house and shootings with the militants, one special forces fighter died and two were injured.

On August 19, in Surgut (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug), the 19-year-old native of Dagestan Arthur Gadzhiev with a knife attacked passers-by in the city center and wounded seven people. The police officers who arrived at the place shot the attacker.

The “Islamic State”*took responsibility for the massacre in Surgut. According to the media, after this emergency in the city, dozens of acquaintances of Gadzhiev, including immigrants from Dagestan, were detained , and some of them were charged with terrorism.