Counter-terrorist regime lifted in Dagestan’s Kizlyar Region

The counter-terrorist regime in Kizlyar Region of Dagestan, where a special operation against militants was held, has been lifted. Two militants were killed, RIA Novosti reports, citing the National Counter-Terrorist Committee (NCTC).

The counter-terrorist regime came into force on Sunday in the forest between Serebryakova, Tsvetkovka and Malaya Oreshevka villages of Kizlyar Region. Two militants, who organized terrorist attacks on the railroad and attacked servicemen on Saturday, were killed.

The explosion on the railroad happened after a passenger train number 652 Astrakhan-Makhachkala passed on Saturday at approximately 01.45 (Moscow time). After that the assailants opened fire at military servicemen of the Russian Interior Ministry, who were guarding the railroad. One serviceman died.

One of the militants was recognized as Abdulmumin Abdulmuminov, a former imam of a mosque in Kizlyar Region, who joined the militants in May 2010 and became one of their ideologists. His speeches were published on extremist websites.

The second militant is Tahir Terekbayev, 1978, native of the Tukuyu-Mektep village in Neftekumsk Region of the Stavropol Territory.

According to the NCTC, he was a brother of Zamir Terekbayev, suicide bomber who blew himself up at the military range ‘Dalniy’ on September 5. Organizer of the terrorist attack Sakhratula Nazhmudinov, nicknamed ‘Pushtun’, died on November 13.

The militants were also involved in the murder of a teacher at Ilyas Jakhparov Madrassas in Krasnaya Polyana village of Kizlyar Region in March, and murder of a student of the madrassas in June.