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[Daily Mail] Video has surfaced of an Islamist terrorist cell that chose to blow themselves up rather than surrender to police. Police had tracked the four militants to a house in the village of Psedach in the Russian republic of Ingushetia, where they ordered the men to surrender. However, rather than give themselves up, the group chose to set of a bomb which destroyed their hideout, killing all four of them.
The Islamist cell members were wanted by the Russian secret service in connection with the attempted murder of policemen. Federal Security Service agents surrounded their hideout, and the group began shooting at the officers, who returned fire.
The video footage shows that specialist troops began shooting at the property with rifles, machine guns and mortars. Realizing that the game was up, the rebels then decided to blow themselves up rather than be captured. The video shows that the huge blast from their suicide bombs ripped the roof off the little cottage.
The terrorists were believed to be members of the Khunzakh militant group. Two of them, Bekhan Soltukiev and Mikhail Cherbizhev were wanted for a series of attacks on police officers. Authorities identified the third man who died in the blast as Khasan Khatsiev.
They have yet to release the identity of the fourth man killed in the explosion, which completely destroyed the building.