Two scientists shot dead in Kabardino-Balkaria

October 7, Kabardino-Balkaria- 2 scientists of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory, a research facility with the Institute for Nuclear Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, were shot dead by militants in a hail of bullets in the evening in the village of Neutrino at Elbrus District. The victims, Dzhamal Guliyev and Marina Kozhemyakina, were a chief engineer and a systems administrator respectively.

The following day, law enforcement officials killed two alleged militants suspected of killing the two scientists. One of the militants was identified as Rustam Benigerov, supposed leader of the Tyrnyauz underground. Law enforcement sources confirmed that documents and personal effects belonging to Guliyev & Kozhemyakina were found in the slain militants’ possession. Among the items were a passport, a driving license, an insurance policy, and two bank cards. According to preliminary data, the weapons that were used in the shooting were also found on Benigerov.

In another incident, two suspected rebels were killed in the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in a special operation conducted by law enforcement on October 7. Police officers surrounded a five-story apartment building in the city of Tyrnyauz where a group of four suspected militants were staying. According to the law enforcement authorities, this operation may have prevented a major terrorist act in the republic, as the suspects possessed a considerable quantity of weapons including IEDs.

In Nazran, Ingushetia, an unidentified person threw a hand grenade into the yard of the house that belonged to Ruslan Bulguchev, the Minister of Construction,. In North Osetia, unidentified men threw a grenade into a mosque in the village of Elkhotov. Both attacks claimed no victims.

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