On October 3-9, at least 18 people perished in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

During the week from October 3 to October 9, 2016, in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus at least 22 people suffered, of whom 18 persons were killed and four others were wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The death toll includes three law enforcers – two in Kabardino-Balkaria and one in Chechnya; and 15 alleged members of the armed underground – eight in Chechnya, six in Ingushetia and one in Dagestan.

Attacks on power agents

On October 8, in the village of Andi, Botlikh District of Dagestan, during operative-search actions a man was killed. He was blocked in a private household and opened fire in response to policemen's offer to surrender. He was shot dead by response fire. The casualty was identified as a member of a local illegal armed formation (IAF), who was on the federal wanted list.

At night on October 9, in the Gerzel-Engel-Yurt highway in the Gudermes District of Chechnya, policemen tried to stop two passenger cars. However, in response to policemen's demand to stop, fire was opened from inside the cars; policemen fired back. In the shootout, four policemen were wounded; and eight suspected militants were killed. Both cars were burnt down. All the wounded policemen are at hospital; their health is out of danger. One of the eight slain militants was pre-identified as Ali Demilkhanov, 33, a militant leader.

At night on October 9, in the village of Mesker-Yurt, Shali District of Chechnya, the body of a National Guard serviceman with multiple gunshot wounds was found. According to preliminary information, he was shelled from a passing car.

On October 9, at about 2:30 a.m., in the city of Prokhladny, Prokhladnensly District of Kabardino-Balkaria, four men travelling in a black Lada Priora car opened fire at two DPS (road-and-post service) inspectors, who were in their patrol car. As a result, both inspectors died from received wounds. The attackers are being searched.

Special and counterterrorist operations

On October 6, at 11:00 a.m. Moscow time, the operative headquarters in Dagestanquashed the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime imposed on October 2 on the Tabasaran District.

On October 7, at 3:35 a.m. Moscow time, the CTO regime was introduced in the city of Nazran and in the village of Gazi-Yurt, Nazran District of Ingushetia. In the course of a special operation in Nazran, three suspected militants were killed, Ingush law enforcement bodies have informed: a private house in Bogatyryov Street was blocked; the members of the armed underground rendered resistance and were killed. According to the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), four members of the armed underground were killed; three out of them have been identified as the 26-year-old Zubair Sautiev, a native of Malgobek, who arrived from Syria; the 27-year-old Aslan Dakiev and the 32-year-old Magomed Parov from Surkhakhi. In the village of Gazi-Yurt, power agents blocked a private house in Gornaya Street. In the course of the shootout that broke out two suspected militants were killed; they proved to be the spouses Rustam Aushev and Zulfiya Ausheva, who rendered resistance. Then, the CTO regime in Nazran and Gazi-Yurt was cancelled.

On October 9, at 9:45 p.m. Moscow time, the CTO regime was introduced in the Suleiman-Stalsky District of Dagestan: militants and their helpers are being searched there.

Detentions

On September 25, in the Dagestani city of Kaspiysk, power agents detained six people, who were trained, according to law enforcers, by Syrian militants to warfare in that country. Four members of the same grouping were killed in two special operations. The exact date of detentions is not reported. Magomed Gasanbekov, born in 1998, a resident of Kaspiysk and a member of the "sleeping cell" of militants, confessed during interrogation that he had been trained as a suicide bomber; he intended to commit a suicide bombing in the "Djemikent" post in the Derbent District of the republic. This information arrived on October 3.

On October 2, relatives reported kidnapping of two residents of Kaspiysk, Shamil Djamalutdinov and Islam Magomedov in the evening on September 27. On October 3, a source from the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) said that Sh. Djamalutdinov and I. Magomedov were detained on suspicion of helping illegal armed formations (IAFs).