Death toll from attack in Russia’s Dagestan reaches 21

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****** toll from ******* in Russia’s Dagestan reaches 21

The ****** toll in the ******* by Islamic militants in Russia’s southern region of Dagestan has risen to 21 after a wounded police officer has ***** in a hospital.

Sunday’s *******, in which militants attacked ********** and ******* houses of worship and fired at police in the cities of Derbent and Makhachkala in the predominantly ******* region in the North Caucasus, was the deadliest in Russia since March, when gunmen opened ***** at a concert in suburban Moscow, ******** 145 people.

An affiliate of the Islamic State group in Afghanistan, which claimed responsibility for March’s raid, was quick to praise the ******* in Dagestan, saying it was conducted by “brothers in the Caucasus who showed that they are still strong”.

The Investigative Committee, Russia’s top state ********* investigation agency, said all five attackers were *******.

Mavsum Ragimov, head of the Derbent region, said Tuesday that a police sergeant ***** of his wounds in a hospital, bringing the total number of victims to 21, 16 of them police.

Medical authorities in Dagestan said Monday at least 46 people were injured, 13 of them police.

Among the ***** was the Reverend Nikolai Kotelnikov, a 66-year-old Russian Orthodox priest at a ******* in Derbent. The ******* came as the Orthodox faithful celebrated Pentecost, also known as Trinity Sunday.

In the early 2000s, Dagestan saw near-daily attacks on police and other authorities that were blamed on militant extremists.

After the emergence of the Islamic State group, many residents of the region joined it in Syria and Iraq.

The ********* in Dagestan has abated in recent years, but in a sign that extremist sentiments still run high in the region, mobs rioted at an airport there in October, targeting a flight from *******.

More than 20 people were hurt – none of them Israelis – when hundreds of men, some carrying banners with anti-Semitic slogans, rushed onto the tarmac, chased passengers and threw stones at police.

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