A priest and a policeman have been killed after gunmen armed with automatic weapons attacked a synagogue and a church on Sunday evening in the city of Derbent, in Russia’s southernmost Dagestan province.
In what appears to be a coordinated attack in the nearby city of Makhachkala, Dagestan, at least one police officer has been injured after a traffic post was fired on. A priest was killed in the attack on the church, according to the Dagestan Public Monitoring Commission Chairman, Shamil Khadulaev. “According to the information I received, Father Nikolay was killed in the Church in Derbent, they slit his throat. He was 66-years-old and very ill,” Khadulaev said.
In what appears to be a coordinated attack that took place around the same time as the attacks on the church and synagogue, a police traffic post in Makhachkala, Dagestan, also came under fire. At least one police officer was injured in the attack in Makhachkala, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The head of the Dagestan Republic, Sergey Melikov, has since issued a message on Telegram saying that “unknown persons made attempts to destabilize the social situation.
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