The dead included a 66-year-old Orthodox priest and at least seven police officers. More than two dozen were injured in what appeared to be a coordinated attack.
Assailants opened fire at an Orthodox church, a synagogue and a traffic police post across two cities in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan on Sunday evening, killing at least nine people, local officials said.
Kotelnikov, 66, was killed at the Church of Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Derbent. Gunmen also attacked the city’s only synagogue, though it was apparently empty at the time. In response, Russian senator Dmitry Rogozin complained that if every terrorist attack is “blamed on the intrigues of Ukraine and NATO, this pink fog will lead us to big problems.” The Kremlin, which had no immediate comment on the attack, has frequently made spurious claims about Ukrainian involvement in domestic crises.For years, Russia has battled a homegrown Islamist insurgency in the Muslim-majority North Caucasus, a legacy of its wars in Chechnya.
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