NAC: organizer of terror act in Volgograd killed in special operation in Dagestan

The militants killed during a special operation in Makhachkala have been identified as Murad Kasumov, the leader of the "Makhachkala" armed grouping, who had ordered to make the bomb that was triggered in a bus in Volgograd, and Kamal Muslimov, who had joined the armed underground, the Russia's National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reports.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on November 19 the Kirov District of Makhachkala was put under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, after police squads had been twice shelled in the city. As a result of these attacks, an occasional passerby was killed; and two policemen were wounded. One of the attackers was killed and later identified as Ruslan Kazanbiev, who, as reported by power agents, was an accomplice of the organizer of the bus explosion in Volgograd. Other attackers fled and hid in a private house, which was blocked; they were killed today during a special operation.

According to the NAC, the killed Murad Kasumov was convicted in 2008 for robbery and looting. "While in jail, he stuck to religious extremist views; and after released from prison he joined the armed underground. In early 2013, he headed an armed grouping, and organized and committed terror acts in the capital of Dagestan," the NAC reports.

According to the ID for Dagestan of the ICRF, the pistol found on Kazanbiev, was used to murder Mukhtar Shapiev, a judge of the Supreme Court of Dagestan, and his son, Zainudin Madanov, a judge of the Lenin District C of Makhachkala, and the lawyer Magomed Guchuchaliev.