At least five police officers were killed and a priest was beheaded in terrorist attacks in Dagestan on Sunday.
BREAKING:
Islamist terror attack in Dagestan, Russia against a synagogue and a church.
At least 5 police officers k*lled and 1 priest beheaded.
The bearded terrorists are all dressed in black and are shouting “Allahu Akbar” pic.twitter.com/m8TsDOymsq
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 23, 2024
Bearded gunman dressed in black attacked the synagogue and a church.
BREAKING:
Coordinated Islamist terror attacks in Dagestan, Russia.
Bearded gunmen dressed in black have attacked a synagogue and a church.
At least 6 people k*lled pic.twitter.com/iE6chKbBfh
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 23, 2024
Russian officials say the terrorists are using NATO provided weapons.
JUST IN: Russian police under fire on the streets in Dagestan.
Russian authorities confirm the militants are using NATO supplied weapons. pic.twitter.com/ProliFvXfE
— Aussie Cossack (@aussiecossack) June 23, 2024
Russia Today reported:
An Orthodox priest was brutally murdered after two churches and a synagogue came under attack on Sunday in Russia’s southern region of Dagestan, Interior Ministry spokesperson Gayana Garieva has said.
The assailants reportedly broke into an Orthodox church in the city of Derbent and killed the archpriest, Father Nikolay Kotelnikov, by slitting his throat, Shamil Khadulaev, the head of the regional Public Oversight Committee, which monitors the observance of human rights in prisons, said on his Telegram channel.
A security guard named Mikhail who worked in the church was shot by the assailants. The man was only armed with a gas pistol, according to Khadulaev. Other clergymen have locked themselves in the church, waiting for help, he added.
The terrorists attacked the church on Pentecost Sunday, immediately after the evening service and shortly before the church was closed.
The priest who was killed was 66 years old and was seriously ill, according to Khadulaev. In the 1980s Father Nikolay was commissioned from the southern Russian city of Stavropol to Dagestan and served at Derbent’s Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. He spent a total of 40 years serving there, and had a wife, three children and grandchildren, according to local media reports.
