Priest, 6 Officers Killed in Shootings at Synagogue, Church, Police Post in Russia: Officials

Published on June 23, 2024

MOSCOW—Gunmen opened fire at a synagogue, an Orthodox church, and a police post in simultaneous attacks across two cities in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Sunday, killing at least six policemen and injuring 12, Russian news agencies quoted the interior ministry as saying. The attack comes three months after 145 people were killed in an attack claimed by the ISIS terrorist group on a concert hall near Moscow, Russia’s worst terrorist attack in years. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks in the volatile North Caucasus region. State news agency TASS cited law enforcement as saying that among the attackers had been two sons of the head of central Dagestan’s Sergokala district, who it said had been detained by investigators as a result....

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