OAN’s Abril Elfi
3:50 PM – Sunday, June 23, 2024
At least nine people have died and 25 others have been injured in coordinated attacks in Russia.
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According to the region’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, at least nine people, including seven law enforcement officers, were killed in what appeared to be a coordinated attack on Sunday in the Dagestan region of southern Russia when gunmen opened fire on an Orthodox church and a synagogue located miles apart.
Among the dead are seven law enforcement officers, a priest, and a church security guard. Four “militants” have also been killed, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
“According to the information I received, Father Nikolay was killed in the church in Derbent; they slit his throat. He was 66 years old and very ill,” Dagestan Public Monitoring…
