More than 15 people, including 6 police officers, have been killed and 13 others have been seriously injured in an attack by terrorists on Jewish churches and a police station in the predominantly Muslim region of Dagestan in southern Russia, the Russian Interior Ministry said. A news package on this.
Dagestan is one of the 21 republics of the Russian Federation. Over the past 20 years, Dagestan, the most populous of Russia’s five main provinces in the North Caucasus region, has seen an increase in Islamic extremist attacks.
Bordering Chechnya (Chechnya), which has been experiencing violent insurgencies in the name of Jihad for many years, the Dagestan region is a powerhouse of Islamic extremist organizations.
Both Caucasian and ISIS are Islamic extremist organizations banned by the Supreme Court in Russia. Therefore, terrorists belonging to these two terrorist organizations frequently carry out several deadly attacks against Russian law enforcement agencies, counter-terrorism law enforcement agencies, security forces and civilians.
In Daghestan, most people follow an Islam called Sufism that incorporates local traditions. In the same Dagestan, a strict Islamic tradition called Salafism, a form of radical Islam, is practiced by a few.
Frequent violent attacks between these two organizations have become the norm.
In this case, firing has been done in three places inside the Jewish church in Dagestan. It has been reported that more than 15 people, including the priest, have died and 13 people have been seriously injured. It is also said that two terrorists involved in the attack have been shot dead while the house where the prayer hall of the church was on fire. According to reports, firing took place between the two groups.
Already, when more than 135 people were killed in an attack by terrorists in a music hall in Moscow, the FSB, the Russian Federal Security Service, and the Internal Security Service of Dagestan conducted many raids and controlled terrorist activities.
Again, Russian government reports suggest that the government is taking drastic measures in an all-out effort to prevent the resurgence of Islamic extremism.
