Gang leader among six slain Dagestan militants - NAC
MOSCOW. July 4 (Interfax) - The National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) has confirmed reports that six militants have been killed in two sting operations in Dagestan and an officer of a special police task force was fatally wounded.
"Security services received intelligence about two militants' likely presence in a private house in Khasavyurt, both of them members of the Khasavyurt gang. The private house was destroyed in a joint operation, carried out by the republic security services and police," the NAC said.
A counter-terror operation regime was declared in Khasavyurt and district residents were evacuated. The gang members were talked into releasing Diana Kamamova, the common law wife of one of them. When the woman was leaving the house, the militants attempted to break through and opened intensive fire at the security task force.
"All militants were neutralized in the fighting. They have been tentatively identified as Eldar Muziyev, born in 1991, who joined a criminal armed group in January 2012, and Sharapudin Nimatulayev, born in 1986, who joined militants last year," the NAC said.
Both were active gang members, who had five attempts on law enforcement officials' lives on their criminal record, as well as several attacks on mobile and stationary police patrols.
On the same day four militants were trapped in a private house in Kaspiisk. After the gang members were convinced into releasing the owner of the house, his wife, two daughters and two grandchildren, they opened fire and the house was stormed. "The bandits were destroyed. Among them were Murad Abdurakhmanov, born in 1985, who was leader of the Kaspiisk subversive-terrorist group, and three of its active members: Kurban Dzhapayev, born in 1987, Ulugbek Nutsalov born in 1988 and Mevludin Misrikhanov born in 1990," the NAC reported.
