At least 15 policemen and four civilians, including an Orthodox priest, have died in Russia’s southern region of Dagestan after gunmen attacked churches and synagogues in two cities, officials said.
Russian authorities called the shootings terrorist attacks and said the situation was under control on Monday. They said six of the assailants were killed.
Dagestan is a mostly Muslim region in the north Caucasus that has struggled with a long-running Islamist insurgency. The shootings in the regional capital Makhachkala and Derbent on Sunday evening were the worst terror incident in Russia since militants killed 145 people and injured a further 180 at a concert hall in Moscow in March.
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