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Monday, August 28, 2017
IS claims deadly stabbing of policeman in Russia’s Dagestan
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleTwo men stab one policeman to death and wound another in Dagestan in Russia’s North Caucasus on Monday before being shot dead by police, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.
It is the second attack in Russia in 10 days claimed by IS, after a man armed with an axe wounded seven in the Siberian city of Surgut on August 19.
Russian investigators have said they are investigating both attacks as criminal incidents, despite the claims by IS.
The attackers used knives to stab the two police officers before being “eliminated” at a petrol station in the Caspian Sea town of Kaspiisk, the regional Investigative Committee says.
IS later claimed responsibility through its Amaq propaganda agency, calling the assailants “soldiers of the Islamic State.”
— AFP
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