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1 dead, 10 injured in shooting in Russia’s North Caucasus

The group was reportedly made up of locals from Derbent and the surrounding Derbentskiy District, and had been standing on a panoramic terrace of the ancient fortress when the gunmen attacked.

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It is believed that 11 other people were injured after a gunman opened fire on a group of tourists at the historic citadel in Derbent on Tuesday night, according to a local health ministry spokesperson.


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Islamists in the North Caucasus have previously been united under a local Caucasus Emirate organisation, but are now increasingly flocking to the Islamic State group, which in June declared it had established a franchise there. “This is the same group that in the middle of December shot at fire trucks, when three members of the emergency services were shot at”, sources told Russian state media outlet RIA. Sixty-seven cartridges of various caliber were found at the site.


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At least 118 people were killed there between January and November as a result of the conflict, according to the Caucasian Knot news portal, which monitors militancy in the North Caucasus.

Syria’s Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front had called on jihadists from the Caucasus to perpetrate attacks in Russian Federation in response to Moscow’s bombing campaign in the country.

Gun and bomb assaults are widespread in Dagestan, a principally-Muslim inner republic in Russia’s troubled North Caucasus area, the place Moscow has been preventing Islamist insurgents for years.

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A manhunt is now underway for the attackers who fled the scene.

Gunman opens fire on tourists in Dagestan