Dagestan has more victims of meeting fusillade

In Dagestan, another participant of mass disorders that took place on April 25 in the Dokuzparinskiy District of the Republic died, Tagir Tagirov, physician on duty of the Akhtyn district hospital, where those wounded were taken, told "Interfax" on Wednesday.

"Zeinal Gadjimov, 38, a citizen of Mikrakh village in the Dokuzparinskiy District, was brought to hospital with a lung gunshot wound. We tried to extract the bullet out of the lung but failed. Then the patient was taken to one of Makhachkala hospitals where he died," said Tagirov.

Today, at a press conference in Moscow, human rights activists showed video records evidencing a shooting by the authorities of a peaceful demonstration in the Dokuzparinskiy District of Dagestan on April 25. The video pictured the first several minutes of the rally dispersal. It is seen from the film that it was a peaceful meeting, when suddenly special police forces ("spetsnaz") appeared from three directions, and gunshots were heard. The mob burst into panic, and the filming was interrupted. Witnesses told the press conference that spetsnaz fighters were chasing and beating the escaping people.

We remind you that on April 25, a meeting of citizens of the Dokuzparinskiy District of Dagestan, who came out for dismissal of District Head Kerimkhan Abasov, ended in a confrontation with militia. Murad Lagmetov, a village native, died from a firearm wound. Several more local citizens were wounded and injured, 11 militiamen also suffered.