Suspected leader, 4 Islamist militants killed in Russia’s Dagestan

Suspected leader, 4 Islamist militants killed in Russia’s Dagestan

PanARMENIAN.Net - A suspected militant leader and four members of his armed group were killed Tuesday, March 25, in a shootout with police in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, Russia’s anti-terrorism authority said, according to RIA Novosti.

The National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAK) identified the militant leader as Tural Ataev, a 28-year-old native of Azerbaijan, who allegedly headed a militant group in the Babayurt district of Dagestan.

One police officer was killed and another wounded in the shootout with the militants, the NAK said.

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