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At least 20 people were killed, including residents and authorities soldiers, when militants opened fire at two Catholic churches, two churches, and a police station in separate problems in the towns of Derbent and Makhachkala in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Daghestan.
In the June 23 problems, according to earlier reports, four civilians were killed, along with 15 authorities officers, according to authorities.
At least 46 people were injured, according to Russian authorities.
Regional Governor Sergei Melikov stated in a movie statement posted on Telegram earlier on June 24 that Father Nikolai, 66, who had spent more than 40 times in the Catholic church in Derbent, was one of the residents killed.
Melikov said that six “bandits” were “liquidated” by security forces.
The safety activity had been declared over by Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee by the morning of June 24.
Magomed Omarov, the mind of the main Sergokala area and the director of the local branch of the United Russia party, was one of the detained, whose house was searched. Omarov was expelled from the party for steps discrediting the firm, United Russia’s media company in Daghestan said.
According to an unnamed source, two of Omarov’s children and one of his cousins were among the defeated intruders, three of the intruders who were killed have been identified, according to Interfax, which reported them as being among the defeated intruders.
When Islamic State ( IS ) extremists opened fire on a packed concert hall on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia’s worst terrorist attack in years, 145 people died and hundreds were hurt in the attacks, which occurred just three months later.
IS or any other organizations did not immediately accept responsibility for the problems in the tense North Caucasus place on June 23.
After authorities announced three times of mourning for the region, Melikov declared,” This is a time of horror for Daghestan and the entire land.”
According to a local spiritual organization in the majority Muslim territory, the , problems  , occurred on a spiritual vacation in the Russian Orthodox Church.
” The radicals want to burn interfaith bridges and pit us against one another with all their might.” But they wo n’t succeed”, the organization said.
The chairman of the public council of Russia’s Federation of Jewish Communities, Boruch Gorin, said on Telegram that synagogues in both cities caught fire during the attacks.
” Two are killed: a policeman and a security guard”, Gorin said.
According to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, shots were fired at a second synagogue in Makhachkala and the synagogue in Derbent were destroyed.
Derbent is a UNESCO World Heritage site and the site of an ancient Jewish community.
The attack on the police station occurred in Makhachkala, the capital of Daghestan, 125 kilometers north of Derbent.
Unknown assailants attacked a traffic police post, and two assailants were killed there, according to the Daghestani Interior Ministry. The airport was shut down for several days in Makhachkala after a mob scurried in and pelted anti-Jewish epithets.
Following the Hamas attack, which the United States and the European Union have labeled a terrorist organization, that on October 7 attacked Israel, anti-Jewish protests erupted in a number of cities in the region.
Four people were detained in Daghestan by Russia’s Federal Security Service ( FSB ) on suspicion of providing money and weapons to participants after the deadly March 22 massacre at the Crocus City Hall concert venue near Moscow.
An offshoot of IS known as Islamic State- Khorasan claimed responsibility for that attack. Four men, all Tajik nationals, were responsible for the assault, according to Russian investigators.
In connection with the attack, which is Russia’s worst terrorist attack in 20 years, Russian authorities have detained 11 Tajik citizens and a Russian national who was born in Kyrgyzstan.
