Two officers dead and four wounded is the provisional toll of the attack perpetrated this Sunday night by suspected Islamic terrorists against a Russian Police checkpoint in the town of Mara-Ayagui, in the North Caucasian republic of Karachayevo Cherkessia, with a Muslim majority . This is the second attack in a week in this same republic belonging to the Russian Federation.
Around eleven thirty at night, the insurgents threw an explosive device at the agents and then shot them with automatic weapons. According to the local delegation of the Ministry of the Interior, the police patrol managed to kill five of the attackers.
Last Monday, April 22, in the city of Karachaevsk, near Mara-Ayagi, armed men also attacked the Russian security forces, killing two police officers. After taking their weapons, they fled the scene.
The Russian Investigative Committee maintains that the same terrorist group could be behind these two attacks. A week ago, Dzhazayev Kazbek, Ruslán Semionov, Vladimir Averyánov, Akhmat Elkanov and his brother Ruslán were identified as suspects, all of them allegedly linked to the Islamic State.
Attacks and sabotage
On April 11, in the neighboring republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, also with a Muslim majority, special forces of the Russian Police carried out an operation during which two terrorists who had barricaded themselves in an agricultural complex and who, according to the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAK in its Russian acronym), were “planning terrorist attacks and sabotage.”
The NAK also declared then that they belonged “to an international terrorist organization”, although it was not clarified whether it was related to the attack on March 22 at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow, where 145 people died and which was claimed by the State. Islamic.
On March 31, in the Russian North Caucasian republic of Dagestan, in its capital Makhachkala and the town of Kaspiisk, the anti-terrorist operation regime was also declared and ended with the arrest of four people of Central Asian origin. According to the NAK, they “directly assisted the Crocus City Hall terrorists.”
Also in early March, in the republic of Ingushetia, also in the North Caucasus, FSB units blocked six armed men on the fourth floor of a residential building in the town of Karabulak. The six suspected terrorists perished in the shootout. The NAK pointed out that all of them had sworn allegiance to Daesh, specifically, according to the BBC, they were part of the so-called Vilayat Khorasan, the Afghan branch of ISIS.
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