On April 4-10, five persons fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

During the week of April 4-10, 2016, five persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, three persons were killed, and two others were wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The death toll includes three civilians in North Ossetia.

Special and counterterrorist operations

At 6:00 a.m. Moscow time of April 5, counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime was introduced within the borders of six villages of the Kurakh District of Dagestan, including Kurakh, a regional centre. The CTO legal regime is in force within the area of the Kurakh District, bounded by the villages of Kabir, Ikra, Rugun, and MountYarkhigyuneikil.

At 5:30 a.m. Moscow time of April 10, the CTO legal regime was introduced in the Magaramkent District of Dagestan. Law enforcers are engaged in the search for members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) and their accomplices.

Bombings and terror acts

At night of April 4, in the Cossack village of Troitskaya of the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, unidentified persons threw an RGD-5 grenade to the yard of the house of Magomed Khashtyrov, Assistant Mufti of Ingushetia. No one was injured as a result of the explosion. When law enforcers arrived at the place, they found 12 pieces of metal fragments of the grenade.

In the evening of April 3, in the village of Ken-Yurt in the Grozny District of Chechnya, an 11-year-old schoolboy found a fragment of a mortar shell on the river bank and blew himself up on it. The child was hospitalized in serious condition with multiple shrapnel wounds. The victim underwent surgery, and his condition was stabilized. At present, there is no direct threat to his life.

Attacks on civilians

On April 8, after Friday prayer at the Khasavyurt"Hospital" mosque, policemen attempted to detain a number of believers. According to eyewitnesses, law enforcers acted brutally and failed to explain the reasons for their actions. Thus, they angered the believers who stood up for the detainees and did not let force them into a police car. Two policemen started firing into the air. As a result, Sirazhudin Biyarslanov, a 47-year-old taxi driver, who was passing by the place, was wounded. He was brought to hospital.

At night of April 9, at the entrance to the village of Kizlyar in the Mozdok District of North Ossetia, being inside a VAZ-2114 car, two local residents, 23- and 37-year old, and a 30-year-old resident of the Republic of Dagestan, were shelled from automatic weapons and killed.

Detentions

On April 5, nine persons were detained in North Ossetia on suspicion of illicit arms trafficking. Law enforcers seized from the detainees 20 submachine guns and 200 items of ammunition.

On April 8, Idris Yusupov, a correspondent of the newspaper "Novoye Delo", and Sirazhutdin Datsiev, a member of the human rights organization "Memorial", were detained by the police when leaving the mosque in Gagarin Street. As at 3:45 p.m., Idris Yusupov and Sirazhutdin Datsiev were released from the Soviet ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala.

On April 8, in Khasavyurt, law enforcers detained Magomednabi Magomedov, Imam of the "Eastern" mosque. The Imam was detained when he came to the local ROVD and demanded to release the detained believers of the "Hospital" mosque, where after Friday prayers, law enforcers detained about 10 people. By evening, all of them were released, except one person. According to a source from the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan, the Imam was taken into custody by the police within the progress of the investigation into the criminal case on promotion of terrorist activities and incitement of hatred or enmity. The court pronounced the pre-trial restriction against Magomednabi Magomedov, Imam of the Khasavyurt "Eastern" mosque, in the form of detention in custody for two months.

On April 9, the press service of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reported on detention of a 55-year-old resident of the village of Marzoi-Mokhk of the Vedeno District of Chechnya, who, according to the preliminary information, had been involved in the IAF led by field commander Yasir Amarat, who was killed in 2010. Meanwhile, in the village of Sernovodskoe of the Sunzha District, law enforcers detained a 28-year-old resident of the Cossack village of Assinovskaya, who was suspected of aiding and abetting two members of an IAF, killed when rendering armed resistance to law enforcers in the autumn of 2012. According to investigators, the detainee supplied the militants with food.