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Security forces prevent major terrorist attack in Dagestan

2024-12-08

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] In Dagestan, law enforcement officers detained 12 members of a terrorist cell who were planning a major terrorist attack. This was reported on December 7 by the press service of the regional FSB department, providing a video of the searches and detention.

“As a result of operational and investigative measures carried out by the FSB Directorate for the Republic of Dagestan in cooperation with the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 12 members of a secret cell of a terrorist organization banned in Russia, who were planning to carry out a major terrorist act, were detained,” the security forces specified.

During searches of the suspects' residences, small arms, two assembled homemade explosive devices with a capacity of one kilogram of TNT equivalent each, components for their manufacture, 20 bags of ammonium nitrate with a total weight of one ton, and ammunition were found. The security forces destroyed everything on the spot.

The FSB Directorate for the Republic of Dagestan added that the detainees are giving confessions. The issue of choosing a preventive measure in the form of detention is being decided, the department noted.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on December 2, five people were arrested in Dagestan for two months on suspicion of preparing a series of terrorist attacks. According to security officials, the criminal group was organized in the Kizlyar region. Components for making a bomb were seized from the detainees.

In late November, law enforcement officers detained two residents of Dagestan suspected of preparing a terrorist attack in one of the republic's state institutions. According to investigators, residents of the village of Kurush in the Khasavyurt district purchased components for making a bomb in June and wanted to detonate it in a state institution to destabilize the situation in the region. They did not have time to assemble the explosive device, as they were detained.

Related from regnum.ru
In Dagestan, the arrest of the mother of the killed militant Aishat Omarova has been extended

The term of house arrest was extended for the wife of the former head of the Sergokalinsky district of Dagestan, Aishat Omarova, whose son was liquidated by security forces. This was reported on December 7 by the press service of the Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala.

“The Soviet District Court of Makhachkala extended Aishat Omarova’s house arrest until February 8, 2025,” the court told RIA Novosti.

In October, Omarova was detained on suspicion of embezzlement and official forgery. According to investigators, in 2014, Omarova, who worked as a kindergarten manager, fictitiously hired her relative as a clerk. As a result, budget funds in the amount of more than 121 thousand rubles were stolen through embezzlement.

That’s apparently only about US$1200. They’re going after the family root and branch.

The woman's husband, former head of the Sergokalinsky district Magomed Omarov, and one of Adilpasha's sons are also under investigation. They are accused of fraud, and both have been arrested.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 23, attacks were carried out on two Orthodox churches, two synagogues and a traffic police post in Derbent and Makhachkala. As a result of the attack by armed militants, 22 people were killed and more than 40 were injured. Five militants involved in the attacks were eliminated by security forces. Among them was 31-year-old Osman Omarov, the son of the former head of the Sergokalinsky district, Magomed Omarov.

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