Priest, 6 cops killed in Russian synagogues, church, police post attack

 

A priest and six cops were killed and at least a dozen other people injured when gunmen opened fire at two synagogues, an Orthodox church and a police post Sunday in a suspected coordinated terror attack in Russia.

The New York Post reports that the assaults against the church and one of the synagogues occurred in the coastal city of Derbent, with another synagogue and the police post hit in Makhachkala, the largest city in the same Dagestan region, according to Russian media outlets.
Russia’s Interior Ministry said four gunmen had been killed in subsequent shootouts, with the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation confirming that a terrorism investigation has been opened over the attacks.
“All the circumstances of the incident and the persons involved in the terrorist attacks are being established, and their actions will be given a legal assessment,” the federation said in a statement.
Shamil Khadulaev, chairman of the Public Monitoring Commission of Dagestan, identified one of the victims at the Orthodox church as a 66-year-old priest.

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