06:00A policeman injured in Sunday's attacks in Makhachkala claimed on Monday that the perpetrators had Kalashnikov rifles and immediately opened fire on law enforcement.
"Yesterday, help was requested on Buynakskaya [Street] by the FSO [Federal Guard Service], there were shootings and fights there. We went there, and at that time they gave us an orientation report on the 14th [car] - it passed between us. I turned around, followed them. I thought I would stop them, but then they pulled out their AKs, stood there waiting for us and started shooting," said Nadyruslan Umarov.
Another survivor, Endir Ramazanov, said that he was in the Road Police Department at the moment when the gunfire started. He immediately went to the scene to help people and was shot.
"It was not scary, because we knew where we were going and why, because our guys were there. <...> The guys I had been talking to half an hour before, one from the road police post, were killed. Half an hour before that I had been talking to them… they were shot in the back," he added.
Chief physician of a Dagestan hospital Gaziyav Musayev said that 13 police officers and three civilians were transported there with injuries of varying degrees of severity.
Sunday saw a series of deadly attacks on churches, synagogues and police posts in Russia's predominantly Muslim Dagestan, in both Makhachkala and Derbent. At time of publication, around 20 people were confirmed dead, many of them police officers, and dozens taken to hospital.
Chair of the Public Supervisory Commission for Dagestan Shamil Khadulaev stated that a clergyman was killed in the attack in a church in Derbent, while a security guard was shot in a cathedral in Makhachkala.
The Russian Investigative Committee for the Republic of Dagestan has opened criminal cases into the attacks as possible 'terrorist acts'.
Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov described the incident in his Telegram channel as 'a despicable provocation and an attempt to bring discord between religions'.
'They pulled out AKs and started shooting' – Injured police officer following attacks in Russia's Dagestan
A policeman injured in Sunday's attacks in Makhachkala claimed on Monday that the perpetrators had Kalashnikov rifles and immediately opened fire on law enforcement.
"Yesterday, help was requested on Buynakskaya [Street] by the FSO [Federal Guard Service], there were shootings and fights there. We went there, and at that time they gave us an orientation report on the 14th [car] - it passed between us. I turned around, followed them. I thought I would stop them, but then they pulled out their AKs, stood there waiting for us and started shooting," said Nadyruslan Umarov.
Another survivor, Endir Ramazanov, said that he was in the Road Police Department at the moment when the gunfire started. He immediately went to the scene to help people and was shot.
"It was not scary, because we knew where we were going and why, because our guys were there. <...> The guys I had been talking to half an hour before, one from the road police post, were killed. Half an hour before that I had been talking to them… they were shot in the back," he added.
Chief physician of a Dagestan hospital Gaziyav Musayev said that 13 police officers and three civilians were transported there with injuries of varying degrees of severity.
Sunday saw a series of deadly attacks on churches, synagogues and police posts in Russia's predominantly Muslim Dagestan, in both Makhachkala and Derbent. At time of publication, around 20 people were confirmed dead, many of them police officers, and dozens taken to hospital.
Chair of the Public Supervisory Commission for Dagestan Shamil Khadulaev stated that a clergyman was killed in the attack in a church in Derbent, while a security guard was shot in a cathedral in Makhachkala.
The Russian Investigative Committee for the Republic of Dagestan has opened criminal cases into the attacks as possible 'terrorist acts'.
Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov described the incident in his Telegram channel as 'a despicable provocation and an attempt to bring discord between religions'.
A policeman injured in Sunday's attacks in Makhachkala claimed on Monday that the perpetrators had Kalashnikov rifles and immediately opened fire on law enforcement.
"Yesterday, help was requested on Buynakskaya [Street] by the FSO [Federal Guard Service], there were shootings and fights there. We went there, and at that time they gave us an orientation report on the 14th [car] - it passed between us. I turned around, followed them. I thought I would stop them, but then they pulled out their AKs, stood there waiting for us and started shooting," said Nadyruslan Umarov.
Another survivor, Endir Ramazanov, said that he was in the Road Police Department at the moment when the gunfire started. He immediately went to the scene to help people and was shot.
"It was not scary, because we knew where we were going and why, because our guys were there. <...> The guys I had been talking to half an hour before, one from the road police post, were killed. Half an hour before that I had been talking to them… they were shot in the back," he added.
Chief physician of a Dagestan hospital Gaziyav Musayev said that 13 police officers and three civilians were transported there with injuries of varying degrees of severity.
Sunday saw a series of deadly attacks on churches, synagogues and police posts in Russia's predominantly Muslim Dagestan, in both Makhachkala and Derbent. At time of publication, around 20 people were confirmed dead, many of them police officers, and dozens taken to hospital.
Chair of the Public Supervisory Commission for Dagestan Shamil Khadulaev stated that a clergyman was killed in the attack in a church in Derbent, while a security guard was shot in a cathedral in Makhachkala.
The Russian Investigative Committee for the Republic of Dagestan has opened criminal cases into the attacks as possible 'terrorist acts'.
Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov described the incident in his Telegram channel as 'a despicable provocation and an attempt to bring discord between religions'.