Ringleader Ilyas Khalilov is responsible for numerous terrorist crimes
MOSCOW, April 13. /TASS/. The ringleader who murdered civilians has been identified among the militants neutralized in Russia’s North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan, a source in the information center of the Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee(NAC) told TASS on Thursday.
MOSCOW, April 13. /TASS/. The ringleader who murdered civilians has been identified among the militants neutralized in Russia’s North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan, a source in the information center of the Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee(NAC) told TASS on Thursday.
"Ringleader
Ilyas Khalilov has been preliminary identified among the militants neutralized
yesterday on the federal highway not far from Dagestan’s Tyube populated
locality," NAC said.
He is responsible for numerous terrorist crimes, including the murder of two residents of the village of Talgi, an attempted assassination of law enforcement officers in the village of Karamakhi and extortion of large sums of money from entrepreneurs to finance terrorist activities.
According
to NAC, investigative work is in progress to establish the neutralized gunmen’s
involvement in other crimes.
Earlier
reports said that on April 11, at 9.25pm Moscow Time, Russia’s Federal Security
Service (FSB) and Interior Ministry officers tried to stop a car on the federal
highway not far from the Tyube populated locality for an inspection. However,
the people in the car opened fire on the law enforcers with automatic firearms
trying to escape. After the shootout the car caught fire and the three
individuals who were inside it sustained injuries incompatible with life.
Source: ITAR-TASS 13-04-2017
