Direct Translate via Google Translate. Edited.[KavkazUzel] A participant in the land conflict killed the imam of the mosque and wounded two people in the village of Ameterkmakhi.
According to local authorities, the attacker was also killed, TASS reported today.
A resident of the village of Ameterkmakhi opened fire from a machine gun, the cause was a land dispute.
"One of the opponents, the imam of the local mosque, was killed. The attacker himself died from a knife wound inflicted by a local resident who tried to stop him," he quoted the Interfax dispatch service today as saying. Two people received gunshot wounds and are in the hospital.
According to the source, several firearms were seized at the site of the shooting, including a Kalashnikov assault rifle. All weapons are unregistered, indicated in the publication.
62-year-old villager Asadulla Rakhmanov, previously convicted of illegal possession of weapons and ammunition, shot Imam Abid Magomedov with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, and then opened fire on his relatives - Arip and Magomed. One of the wounded rushed at the attacker and stabbed him in the neck, killing him on the spot. The victims were hospitalized, they are operated on in a local hospital, Telegram-channel "112" reported.
According to the Telegram channel Mash, the imam was killed right in the mosque. A resident of a Dagestan village arrived with a machine gun, a grenade launcher and a pistol, Baza reported on the Telegram channel.
All participants in the conflict are local residents, said the head of the local administration Tagir Tagirov. "They know each other. I can't say anything about the reasons - maybe the land issue, but there were no conflicts before. Now there are all services, Rosgvardia. They cordoned off the houses, everyone is working," Tagirov was quoted as saying on the Pozym Telegram channel.
The police were not involved in the case, the investigation was immediately taken up by the Investigative Committee, a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs noted.
"There is a murder. Nobody was hiding, the criminal investigation department was not involved in the search and detention of suspects. Therefore, the Investigative Committee immediately connected," the source said in the publication.
"Caucasian Knot" has no confirmation of the information provided by Telegram channels. On the website of the Dagestan Directorate of the Investigative Committee, as of 17.00 Moscow time on November 12, there is no information about the incident in Ameterkmakhi.