An audacious murder was committed in Derbent, Dagestan this morning. The Imam of the city's mosque, Kalimulla Ibraghimov, was killed along with his father and brother.
According to Russian media reports, two unidentified men shot and killed the Imam and his family around 05:00 MSK on the airport road, when they were going to the mosque for morning prayers. All three died at the scene from wounds. The attack took place near the house where Ibraghimov lived.
According to available information, the criminals fled in a Lada Kalina car.
This is not the first attack on religious leaders in Dagestan in recent months.
In March an improvised explosive device killed the Imam of the central mosque in Buinaksk Gitinomagomed Abdulgapurov along with the policeman who guarded him. In June in the village of Karamakhi in the Buinaksk district of Dagestan, masked men burst into the village mosque and killed the Imam Magamedkamil Gamzatov and a parishioner. At the end of August in the Dagestan village of Chirkey a suicide bomber killed an influential Muslim cleric Said Afandi Chirkeisky/Atsaev/. On October 14 in the Uchkent village of ??the Kumtorkala region of the republic criminals shot the Imam of the local mosque, Ismail Hajiyev. -06D -
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