A resident of Karabulak was injured during shooting at a wedding.
Shooting from a wedding convoy is the main version of the injury to a resident of Karabulak. The victim with a head injury is in intensive care.
As reported by "Caucasian Knot", the authorities, together with the Council of Elders of Ingushetia, promised to limit the number of vehicles in wedding convoys and strengthen control over compliance with traffic rules after an accident that resulted in three fatalities. In July, a court in the Nazran district sentenced two local residents to 15 days, one of whom fired a pistol at a wedding, while the other performed dangerous maneuvers in a car within the convoy.
In Karabulak, a local resident sustained a severe head injury and was hospitalized in the intensive care unit, with doctors fighting for her life. Among the versions being considered is an accidental bullet hit during aimless shooting from a wedding convoy, the press service of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs reported to RBC.
According to preliminary data from the agency, an unknown person fired from an unspecified firearm. The identity of the shooter and all circumstances of the incident are being established. The situation has been taken under personal control by the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Ingushetia, Police Lieutenant General Vladimir Kotov. The Ministry of Internal Affairs also reminded about the inadmissibility of illegal possession and carrying of weapons, as well as their use outside designated shooting areas.
"Caucasian Knot" has repeatedly reported on incidents involving shooting at weddings in the republics of the North Caucasus. For instance, on July 12, a video circulated on social media showing an 86-year-old resident of Khasavyurt firing into the air from a pistol at her grandson's wedding. Residents of Dagestan, commenting on the video of this scene, deemed the use of weapons inappropriate.
The shooting ritual at a Caucasian wedding was considered a "protection against the evil eye"; however, this ancient tradition has long turned into an element of fun and revelry, noted Caucasian studies experts previously interviewed by "Caucasian Knot". Shooting at Caucasian weddings is not a historical custom, although it is quite widespread, explained Dagestani scholar Magomedkhan Magomedkhanov earlier.
In March 2023, a resident of Nalchik was punished for shooting at a wedding. In January of the same year, at the border of North Ossetia and Ingushetia, participants of a wedding convoy shot into the air near a police post, and the police did not attempt to stop them.
In August 2022, security forces detained a guest from Kabardino-Balkaria in Vladikavkaz, who fired four times from blank-firing weapons at a wedding. In October 2020, 22 drivers of a wedding convoy were detained in Kabardino-Balkaria for performing dangerous maneuvers on the road and shooting into the air.
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