Baku-APA. A militant leader was shot to death in Russia’s violence-plagued North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, police said, APA reports quoting RIA Novosti.
The leader of the “Caspian” group identified as Zaur Sheikhmagomedov was gunned down in the provincial capital of Makhachkala, after he opened fire on police officers, a representative of Dagestan’s Interior Ministry told RIA Novosti.
Anti-terrorism officials said thatSheikhmagomedov organized a deadly attack by a female suicide bomber earlier this year.The militant was “directly” involved in the planning of the May 25 attack in Machachkala, when a young woman named Madina Aliyeva blew herself up killing one and injuring at least 14 people, including two children and five police officers, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said in a statement.
Since 2000, at least two dozen women, most of them from the North Caucasus, have carried out suicide bombings in Russian cities and aboard trains and planes, according to The Associated Press. All were linked to an Islamic insurgency that spread throughout Dagestan and the predominantly Muslim Caucasus region after two separatist wars in neighboring Chechnya, AP said.
The bombers are often called "black widows" in Russia because many are the widows, or other relatives, of militants killed by security forces. Islamic militants are believed to convince "black widows" that a suicide bombing will reunite them with their dead relatives beyond the grave.
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