Five dead after church shooting in southern Russia, attacker killed (PHOTO, VIDEO)
Five people have been killed and several others injured in a gun attack on a crowd of churchgoers in Dagestan in southern Russia, local police confirmed. The shooter was killed by security forces.
The shooting happened in the city of Kizlyar, a provincial capital in the Republic of Dagestan. The gunman opened fire with a hunting rifle at a group of people leaving a church ceremony dedicated to the end of the Russian folk festival of Maslenitsa, which marks the start of Lent for Russian Orthodox Christians.
The attacker shouted "Allahu Akbar" [God is great] as he opened fire on worshippers, father Pavel, the church's senior priest, told Russian RBC news portal.
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