(Itar-Tass) - A warlord of an armed gang and the criminal mastermind of a terror act at the military proving ground in Buinaksk on September 5 was killed in a special operation in Dagestan."According to preliminary data, coppers identified Sakhratula Nazhmudinov among killed gunnies. He lived in the Tsuntinsky district, had a nickname "Pushtun" and headed armed gangs, operating in the Buinaksk district," Itar-Tass learnt at the Information Centre of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC).
"He hatched a terror act in September 2010 with the use of a kamikaze at the Dalny military proving ground of the 136th motorised brigade of the Defence Ministry. As a result, four servicemen died and 32 were maimed."
According to the NAC, Nazhmudinov also had a hand in gunning down civilians, blasts of industrial facilities and attacks on coppers.
During a Saturday operation, carried out by the Dagestan branch of the Federal Security Service
... the successor to the KGB...
, Russian interior troops and other law enforcers, three members of the Buinaksk armed gang were blockaded at a private home. They participated in murders of coppers, armed robberies of civilians and extortion of money from businessmen.
When the bandidos refused to conduct talks (including participation of the father of one of gunnies) and tried to break through the encirclement, they were killed.
"There were no casualties among civilians," the NAC reported.