Three suspected Two of those killed were identified by the state officials as the leaders of separate influential criminal gangs: Ayub Khaladov and Movsar Katsiyev. The third one was KatsiyevÂ’s subordinate, Khamzat Pugoyev, who was involved into attacks on law enforcement officials in Ingushetia and North Ossetia, according to RussiaÂ’s National Antiterrorism Committee. One officer of the local Federal Security Service was wounded in the shootout.
Khaladov was one of the organizers of a major attack on the native village of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov in 2010. He was involved in plotting suicide bombings, including one at the border between Ingushetia and North Ossetia in October.