On Sunday afternoon, at the Orthodox church of Kizlyar (Dagestan), a local resident arranged shooting from a hunting rifle. Victims are five elderly parishioners of the temple. An armed man went to the temple, and those who stood at the entrance realized that he would shoot people who had come to evening service before Lent and closed the doors. Then the man began to shoot at those who were near the temple or left it. Thus, five elderly women were killed, five others were wounded, including one policeman and one officer of Rosgvardia.

All the wounded were taken to the Kizlyar CGB, doctors fight for their life. Two women, whose condition was assessed by doctors as difficult, were urgently operated. The condition of policemen is assessed as moderate. All victims are provided with all necessary medical assistance. To help Kizlyar doctors left three brigades of the Dagestan Disaster Medicine Center.

On alarm, the entire staff of the city police was raised, all the entrances to the settlement were blocked, the control of the departing and entering transport. Psychologists work with relatives of the victims and victims.

The rifle was a 22-year-old resident of the village of Rassvet of the Tarumovsky district Khalil Khalilov. He was shot.

"The purpose of the attack on the parishioners of the Orthodox Church on the eve of Lent is inciting hatred and hostility between representatives of different faiths. In this, as an instrument for destabilizing the situation in the country, radical Islamists may be interested in the run-up to presidential elections, "said Igor Morozov, a veteran of the SVR. He believes that the residents of Dagestan who fought on the side of the IG (banned in the Russian Federation) in Syria are involved in the shooting.

Representatives of the ROC and the Muftiyat of the Republic of Dagestan condemned what happened in Kizlyar on the day of Forgiveness Sunday. "The murder of innocent people on the threshold of the temple is a terrible and cynical crime that does not and can not have any excuses," Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia said in his message..

In the message of the Muftiyat of Dagestan it is said that Wahhabis, who are covered by pseudo-Islam, in fact have nothing to do with true Islam.

Condemned the incident and the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, who believes that the perpetrators of the incident deserve the most severe punishment. The shooter is not a Muslim, he has no relation to any religion, he is a bandit and a murderer. The peoples of the North Caucasus have always lived in an atmosphere of mutual understanding, so any provocations of Russia's enemies must be stopped.