20 people killed in Republic of Dagestan, Russia

June 24, 2024

On June 23, in the, 20 people were killed and 46 injured when gunmen opened fire on a police station, two orthodox churches and two synagogues. The attacks were separate and happened in the cities of and. The attackers used automatic weapons and escaped by car. A counter-terrorism operation resulted in deaths of six attackers and by the morning of June 24, reported the operation to be over.

Three months ago, 145 people were. No party has claimed responsibility for the Dagestan attack, but the governor said that authorities knew who were behind the attacks, and that they were related to  in Ukraine.

Among the attackers were close relatives of Magomed Omarov, a head of Dagestan's, and a member of. Omarov was detained and his house searched. He was also expelled from United Russia and on June 25, fired from being a district governor. According to Sergey Melikov this was because some of the attackers were his children. He also said that other district governors would be investigated.