Markin: Liquidation of militants related to Volgograd terror attacks prevents new crimes
MOSCOW. Dec 5 (Interfax) - The police have uncovered all circumstances and identified all the individuals connected with the Volgograd terror attacks of late 2013, Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin told reporters.
"Thanks to close collaboration between the Russian Investigative Committee and the Federal Security Service, every circumstance of the terror attacks perpetrated in Volgograd in late 2013 has been uncovered and every person related to them has been identified," Markin said.
"Only three weeks after the first terror attack, the blowing up of a passenger bus, the whereabouts of Dmitry Sokolov, an accomplice to the suicide bomber Naida Asiyalova, and some other members of the Makhachkala sabotage and terrorist group was discovered," he said.
"They offered armed resistance to the arrest and were liquidated. The organizers of the explosions at the rail terminal and on a trolley bus were identified shortly, among them Kadarskaya sabotage and terrorist group leader Jamaltin Mirzayev and active group members Yusup Yakhyayev, Nasrulla Temirkhanov and Arsen Dadayev," Markin said.
"Those people trained and equipped the suicide bombers Asker Samedov and Suleiman Magomedov who blew themselves up," he continued.
"Their accomplices were Alautdin Dadayev and Ibragim Magomedov who harbored [the criminals] in their homes, where bombs were made from a hexogen and TNT mix," Markin said.
"The Batirov brothers transported the suicide bombers to the Volgograd region. They bought about 200 bales of hay and put them in the cargo bay of a KamAZ truck where the suicide bombers were hiding," he said.
Yakhyayev, Temirkhanov and Dadayev were trapped in Magomedov's house in the town of Izberbash on February 5, 2014. They rejected the offer to lay down arms, opened fire and were killed.
"Only Ibragim Magomedov chose to surrender. He testified against his accomplices, including Alautdin Dadayev, in whose house detectives found a stash of weapons, ammunition and homemade bombs," the Russian Investigative Committee spokesman said. Some of those weapons were seized and the rest were destroyed on site, he added.
The detectives have established the motive for the terror attacks, "and the reason is usually the same - an attempt to destabilize our country," Markin said.
The accomplices of the suicide bombers will be sentenced in Volgograd on Friday, December 5.
