[AlMasdar] Three bully boyz have been eliminated during a counter-terrorism operation in the area of the Talgi village in Dagestan...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus
republiccurrently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca...
in Russia’s North Caucasus, the Information Center of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC) told TASS on Saturday.
"During the search measures carried out in a mountain-woody area of the Talgi village the law enforcement forces found out a group of bandidos consisting of three people, who opened fire with automatic weapons in response to the proposal to surrender to the authorities. The special ops units of the Russian Federal Security Service
... the successor to the KGB...
neutralized the Lion of Islams," the NAC said.
There were no civilian casualties or law enforcement personnel losses.
As reported earlier a counter-terrorism operation was imposed in two districts of Russia’s North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan ‐ Buynaksky and Karabudakhkentsky districts ‐ starting 5:00 a.m. Moscow Time on Saturday due to obtained information about planned terrorism-related crimes.