On Wednesday, Russian officials announced that four “bandits” associated with the Islamic State organisation had been killed by security personnel while they were preparing an attack in the republic of Dagestan.
“An anti-terrorist operation” in Makhachkala, the capital of the Caucasus republic, killed the four during the night, according to regional leader Sergei Melikov.
The four were “neutralised,” he claimed in a post on the Telegram channel, after stating that the group had planned an attack on a Kaspiisk police station.
Melikov said that during the raid, automatic firearms, grenades, homemade bombs, and grenade launchers were confiscated.
Melikov said that the attackers were “linked” to the outlawed Islamic State organisation, but no other information was provided.
Last March, 145 people were killed in an attack at a concert hall in Moscow that was attributed to Islamic State gunmen.
